Japan and China were dragged into total war after a shooting broke out in Beijing in July 1937. The video traces how that clash escalated into the capture of major cities, the Rape of Nanking, famine, ...

Few journalists in the 20th century had a career as unusual as Israel Epstein: born to Jewish parents in Warsaw, raised in ...

Japan’s GDP was not very far behind that of the United States, was larger than that of most of the rest of Asia combined, and was seven times that of China. On a recent visit, I found a very different ...

Two of the most prominent belligerents of World War II ended up clashing despite having initially fought on the same side, ...

A few days ago, the Chinese government had the opportunity to reverse the current downturn in China-Japan relations, the worst in years. A ...

Good grief, where is the time going so quickly? I mean, here it is September already! You know what that means, right? (Well, ...

The Asian theater was never just about defeating Japan – it was also about dismantling European imperialism and creating new ...

Bethune’s is an amazing life story — and almost never got told locally — that stretches from March 4, 1890, in Gravenhurst to ...

Embedded in 1930s China to advance the cause of Communist revolution, a pair of Soviet agents maintained their cover stories ...

Japanese Ambassador to China Kenji Kanasugi said, in a TV Asahi program aired on Tuesday, that he cannot be "optimistic" that ...

Experts say Japanese lawmakers' visit to Beijing signals an attempt by Japan to defrost its worst China rift in decades.

North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-sung, drew on his Christian upbringing to develop and consolidate a personality cult that has ...