Launched in Seattle in 1943, the U.S. minesweeper Vigilance survived a Japanese submarine and air attack in the United States’ last Pacific war before being transferred to the Philippines in 1967.

Shinjiro Koizumi makes some of Tokyo's most pointed remarks yet in the dispute over Japan's military build-up.

The 40-volume project marks the first time that the complete court records from the tribunal have been published in Chinese ...

China blacklists 20 Japanese organizations over military exports, heightening tensions with Tokyo after Prime Minister ...

Demonstrators shouted slogans throughout the prime minister’s speech at a World War II memorial event in Okinawa.

Japan must ‘strengthen its defence capabilities’ as China has emerged as the greatest strategic challenge, Defence Minister ...

China's Treasury holdings fell to their lowest level since 2008, while Japan trimmed nearly $47 billion from its position ...

Japan needs to revisit the pacifist posture that has defined it since World War Two, Shinjiro Koizumi says.

TOKYO — A group of Japanese scholars and civic activists has called on the government to confront its history of aggression and return Chinese cultural relics that were taken to Japan during wartime.

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was heckled Tuesday with anti-war slogans during a ceremony in the southern island prefecture ...