How to take a day trip to Cape Soya from Sapporo. Train times, bus times, and what not to miss on a Cape Soya day trip.

A team of biologists from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has identified the first fossil of an ant of the ...

At 11.04 yesterday morning, a bell rang for the first time in 80 years, at Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki. The church was at the epicentre of the atomic bomb blast at that time on 9 August 1945. A Mass ...

A spotlight is on the Tsushima Strait. That’s because China’s new submarine rescue ship was recently spotted by Japan’s ...

In an effort to end the Second World War, the United States made an irreversible decision, changing the course of history: dropping the world's first atomic bombs.

On Aug. 6, 1945, Hiroshima became the first city in history to be attacked with an atomic bomb. Eighty years have passed since this incident and the formal end of World War II in Japan. Hiroshima is ...

A U.S. spy plane flew a probing flight deep into the contested South China Sea on Wednesday, flight data showed.

Al Seidman's centenarian celebration will be Aug. 16 on the USS Constellation in Baltimore Harbor, near the Coast Guard ...

Explore Japan's most ancient tales and creation myths from the Ainu people of Hokkaido to the Ryukyuans in the south.

An exclusive excerpt from Ghosts of Hiroshima recounts the tale of one the few western eye-witnesses, a POW, and the guard ...

In August 1945, the two successful war-ending bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki resulted from top-secret training ...

With a “secret” weapon preparing to gamble and end the war in the Pacific, only a select number of scientists, military ...