Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese government, on board USS Missouri (BB-63), Sep. 2, 1945. Credit: Army Signal Corps photographer ...

This week, the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or Quad, comprising the United States, India, Japan, and Australia, will face its first test. Unexpectedly, it will come at the UNESCO World Heritage ...

Abe Shinzo, then Japan’s prime minister, is seen behind a statue of a teenage girl symbolizing former “comfort women,” who served as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II, near the ...

Japan has a long history. Archaeological evidence shows that people have lived in the Japanese islands since prehistoric times, and written records from almost 1,700 years ago describe primitive ...