TASS/. Tokyo’s refusal to recognize the results of the Second World War stands in the way of signing a peace treaty between Russia and Japan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated in a ...

Traces of fierce battles in the Pacific War remain on Iwo Jima (now Ioto Island), some 1,200 kilometers south of the Japanese ...

Residents of a western Tokyo city applauded when seeing a U.S. B-29 bomber engulfed in flames in the air near the end of World War II. After the aircraft crashed, however, they recovered the ...

after a Kremlin spokesman blamed the presence of US troops in Japan for the lack of a peace treaty between Moscow and Tokyo to formally conclude World War II. Dmitry Peskov’s remarks – that ...

That night floodlights illuminated Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament for the first time since the Battle of ...

Beijing and Moscow each command a naval fleet that outsizes that of Tokyo more than four times over ... the most challenging ...

Listen to the powerful stories of servicemen who fought in WWII's "forgotten theater" in this amazing retro find.

Just south of the vast Imperial Palace in downtown Tokyo lies the Kasumigaseki district, with blocks of offices constructed ...

In 1541, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto becomes the first European colonizer to discover the Mississippi River. In 1909, ...

Captive audience: at the end of the Second World War the number of German prisoners arriving from Europe and the US reached 400,000 (Getty Images) The British people welcomed Victory in Europe ...

Tokyo stocks ended higher on Thursday after a ... The benchmark Nikkei 225 index was up 0.50 percent, or 165.67 points, to end at 33,486.89, while the broader Topix index climbed 0.44 percent ...

Despite Tokyo and many parts of the nation being under a COVID-19 state of emergency, expressways in the greater Tokyo metropolitan area were backed up on Sept. 20, the final day of a three-day ...