Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

A high school in Hiroshima showed 15 new artworks that depicted the atomic bombing, such as a horror-stricken girl surrounded ...

Opinion: 80 years later, there is no certainty another approach would have abruptly ended hostilities and spared substantial ...

He agreed to cap Japanese auto imports in 1981 but hated the deal and did it only as a compromise.

The village of San Pietro Infine, near Mignano in Italy is now a ghost town. Ravaged by the bitter fighting for the Winter Line in December 1943, the town is now in ruins, much like that of ...

‘Utterly foolish’: 12 hours before World War II ended, the US firebombed this Japanese city Pictures from History/Universal Images Group/Getty Images via CNN Newsource ...

Time has stood still on the sixth floor of the Dai-Ichi Life building across the moat from Tokyo's Imperial Palace. Behind heavy wooden doors lies an office, preserved since 1945, that houses the desk ...

While up to his eyeballs in Avatar sequels, James Cameron made a deathbed promise to Tsutomu Yamaguchi (one of the survivors of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki A-bomb blast) that he will tell the ...

An Israeli historian answers his critics and explains why his home country’s conduct in Gaza constitutes genocide.

The island nation in Micronesia is famous its spectacular diving – but Nicole Evatt discovers there are also plenty of treasures to be uncovered on land ...

Even as the West-backed Israeli genocide against Palestine grinds on bloodily, attention in Asia has turned eastward to the ...

You could debate for hours on end when trying to decide your favourite films of all time. However, some really do just stand ...