Japan's role as a peace promoter faces increasing challenges in a conflict-prone world, even as Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ...

Chinese Stalinist crackdown on peasants; Pathet Lao take power in Vientiane; Belgian Communist Party leader assassinated; ...

World War II fielded some of the first iconic fighter jets in military history. It also saw the arrival of some profound ...

Components of Little Boy, the atomic bomb the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima, were quietly delivered to Tinian Island in 1945 by the cruiser USS Indianapolis. Japan sank the ship a short time later, ...

Marine Cpl. Leighton Willhite saw the M4A3 Sherman tank, nicknamed “Lucky,” for the first time in 80 years at the National ...

Japan on Friday is marking the surrender announcement by then-Emperor Hirohito 80 years ago at the end of World War II ...

“Huffer” would track tugboat captain Fred Murphy’s morning trek across the lake for coffee at Templin’s. In May 1986, he live ...

A Navy veteran couple marks their 80th wedding anniversary on the anniversary of World War II's end and shares their ...

A heartfelt commemoration took place to honor World War II veterans stationed in the Pacific, featuring guest speakers and displays of milita ...

When Dorothy Lehman was called home from a friend’s house on Dec. 7, 1941, the then-13-year-old Pottsville girl could not ...

In our travel stories roundup this week: the mysterious origins of the world’s only non-rectangular national flag, plus four ...