As World War II neared its end, a silent threat crept across the Pacific—one the United States never expected to reach its shores. Japan’s Fu-Go balloon bombs, launched into the jet stream, traveled ...

Wataru Satano, son of executioner Osamu Satano, speaks virtually during a ceremony honoring U.S. bomber crews from World War II at Aburayama Kannon Temple in Fukuoka, Japan, June 20, 2025.

The napalm bombing of Japanese cities remains far less notorious than the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, even ...

Despite the successes of the I-19 in the war, Japan was never able to connect these victories with a larger strategy for defeating the Americans and their allies.

The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, was a turning point in world history, pulling the United States directly into ...

On Aug. 24, 2025, a series of posts claimed U.S. President Donald Trump once said the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor during ...

The country’s postwar history was a remarkable story of national rebirth. Now the assumptions that underpinned the last 80 ...

On December 7, 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. The U.S. declared war on Japan and was catapulted into World War II. The plan to detain Japanese Americans swiftly went into effect.

The Second World War ended eight decades ago this summer. But its specter looms large today. The war ended empires, upended ...

The use of national security rhetoric to justify mass incarceration today echoes the same logic that led to their forced ...

US aid to China during World War II was driven by Washington's self-interest, and the dynamics between the two nations before 1949 was that of "coloniser and oppressed", according to a top Chinese ...

During World War II, the United States arrested hundreds of Japanese, German and Italian immigrants from Latin America and deported them to the U.S. where they lived in camps.