Start your Independent Premium subscription today. The CEO of a backpack manufacturer is facing backlash following reports that he tipped authorities off to the bag used by the suspect in the ...

“What if somebody gave this to me as a gift and now I’m going to jail because they committed a crime, because you wanted to tell somebody that was my backpack? That is very scary,” one ...

U.S. and Japanese forces fought over the Aleutian Islands during World War II. Relics of this conflict can still be found on ...

Japanese troops removed and defused an American shell believed to be from WWII at a construction site in Naha, Okinawa.

The magnetic survey at Naha Airport is part of a wider search of airports across Japan in response to a 500-pound, WWII-era ...

The sosaku hanga movement, now explored in an exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art, was a showcase for new ...

There are defining moments in time when racism stoked by fear, ignorance and intolerance change the course of history—they ...

Japanese exports of sweet potatoes have been brisk thanks largely to technology to prevent spoilage and efforts to tailor the spuds to an increasing number of targeted areas around the world ...

The story of Japan’s surrender in World War II isn’t what you think. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki left ...

Even at the time, the now-notorious decision provoked strong dissent from three justices worried about sliding into the "ugly ...

Above all, he wants to get things done. Yesterday. As the United States ambassador to Japan, a country where change typically follows a long process of quiet consensus-building referred to as ...

Kev South, leader of the Channel Islands WW2 Remembrance Campaign, said the majority of Alderney residents had just 24 hours to evacuate in June 1940, following the island's occupation by Germany ...