How severe was the bombing of Japan during World War II? This map, which translates the damage to cities in the U.S. that had similar population sizes in 1940, gives a better sense of the scale.

Excerpt: Rare World War II maps reveal Japan's Pearl Harbor strategy. On December 7, 1941, ... No nation invested more in naval air power before World War II than Japan.

Weeks would pass after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki before the official end arrived for World War II—and, during that time, even though the war had been effectively won, the incendiary ...

When we first meet Etsuko (Hirose), she is a housewife in 1950s Japan who has just found out that she's pregnant. Her husband, Jiro (Kôhei Matsushita), spends most of his days as a salaryman ...

As the 2010 Major League Baseball season reminds us that hope springs eternal, a long forgotten chapter of local sports history waits quietly to be reopened. Players from Japan are now commonplace … ...

But before the atomic bombs, the United States had already begun a ruinous campaign of bombing Japanese cities with incendiary weapons. Over 40,000 tons of napalm bombs were dropped on Japanese ...

Last year, the number of tourists coming into Japan outnumbered those going out for the first time in 45 years. In absolute terms, ... Japan's picture ID before World War II.

The historical issues in East Asia have long been a blindspot for the United States. Time to start paying attention.

As wartime Japan fully deployed its troops in Okinawa Prefecture in March 1944, about a year before the ground battle against ...

On November 7, 1937, the Los Angeles Examiner published a prescient map predicting how Imperial Japan could attack the US during World War II. Created by Howard A. Burke, the map imagined a ...

Weeks would pass after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki before the official end arrived for World War II—and, during that time, even though the war had been effectively won, the incendiary ...

A Japanese artist named Isao Hashimoto has created a piece titled "1945-1998", showing the history of the world's nuclear explosions ...