American PT boats in the Pacific were failing against Japanese supply barges during the Guadalcanal campaign. This story follows Lieutenant Robert Lynch, his crew aboard PT-48, and the desperate ...

The 4th Marine Division and the Army's 7th Infantry Division landed on several islands within the atoll. Four days later, ...

A Pokemon card event for Saturday at Tokyo’s controversial Yasukuni Shrine was canceled and the Pokemon Company, an affiliate ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan and Britain agreed Saturday to accelerate cooperation on cybersecurity and the supply of critical minerals ...

For decades, it was little more than a vague reference in the accounts of explorers and travelers. A great route running east to west across the Gobi Desert, used for centuries by camel caravans, but ...

A Fraser Coast woman has been reunited with a piece of lost family history after a group of metal detector enthusiasts ...

Shinzo Abe, the former Prime Minister of Japan, was speaking at a political rally near a train station in the city of Nara when the shots rang out. It was an unfamiliar sound; it’s essentially illegal ...

Seven Japanese American soldiers are being promoted to officer ranks in a solemn ceremony that comes eight decades after they died fighting for the U.S. during World War II. The men were students ...

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...

Friction is the difference between war on paper and war as it actually is. —Carl von Clausewitz, On War North Korea is not Venezuela. While US President Donald J. Trump characterized his recent ...

NARA, Japan (AP) — In Japan's ancient capital, Nara, deer moved through grass fields and shaded paths, lowering their heads toward visitors holding special crackers made just for them. Nara this week ...