The Japanese government is taking uncomfortable steps to prepare its citizens for a possible future war that its military ...

In a world beset by conflict in the Middle East and an enduring war in Ukraine, tensions are again heating up in East Asia.

Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, Russia and North Korea – ramp up military activities in the region, the ...

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Bristling with armaments and seemingly strong, the current ad hoc Western coalition may yet prove, like NATO, vulnerable to sudden setbacks from rising partisan pressures. The USS Nimitz and USS ...

Before the first planes took off and before the world woke to the attack on Pearl Harbor, a message was sent: “Climb Mount Niitaka.” It wasn’t poetic — it was the final order signaling that diplomacy ...

On this day in 1941, New Zealand formally declared war on Japan, after the shock attack on Pearl Harbour triggered a global ...

As the United States rethinks its role in the international order it has championed since the end of World War II, Japan is on the frontlines of the challenge to rules-based commerce and diplomacy.

It’s hard to imagine what Schuylkill County families must have thought when they read the bold headline “WAR IS ON” in the ...

A single torpedo salvo from I-19, often called one of the most damaging in submarine warfare history, singlehandedly crippled an entire carrier task force. Commissioned in the early days of World War ...