During her visit, Merkel declared, “This year marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, while 25 years have passed since the end of the Cold War.” “Germany and Japan have both ...

Nearly 70 years after the end of World War II, Germany and Japan are finally loosening the last of the bonds that the victorious allied powers tied to limit their military ambitions.

Germany and Japan are rearming. The defeated World War II aggressors have lost their timidity. Japan will soon deploy cruise missiles that can hit nearby countries.

In trying to understand why Japan’s past casts such a long shadow onto its present, one promising approach is to compare the country to its erstwhile World War II ally, Germany. That country’s ...

Unlike Germany, Japan had not ratified the 1929 Geneva Conventions, which prohibited such practices. Also, of course, Japan expected its own troops never to surrender. They were to fight to the death.

Over the past week, the US, Germany, and Japan all proposed massive increases in military spending, dictated by the war against Russia and the approaching conflict with China.

Germany and Japan are two countries with disastrous pasts, ... the FRG had to purge the demons of the Second World War without giving up its ability to defend itself in the context of the Cold War.

But closer to World War II, Russian tanks and artillery won the Khalkin Gol border battle in 1939, while the Red Army’s armored blitzkrieg smashed Japan’s Manchurian Kwantung Army in 1945. But ...

China wants to make World War Two a key part of a trip by President Xi Jinping to Germany next month, much to Berlin's discomfort, diplomatic sources said, as Beijing tries to use German atonement ...