A photograph that has spread on Reddit and Facebook for years allegedly showed a bonsai tree that survived the United States' ...

The sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis is widely known as a shark story—but the truth is much more horrifying.

Author and historian Iain MacGregor profiles a diverse range of players in his latest book about the first atomic bomb used in warfare.

Oshima: venomous Habu snakes were biting hundreds of people each year. To solve the problem, officials introduced 30 mongooses, natural predators resistant to snake venom. It seemed like the perfect ...

"I feel like this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," a Japanese researcher who confirmed the vessel told Newsweek in an ...

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty ...

The crude assortment of fighting tools used by the Japanese during World War II give clues of an unprepared and unmatched ...

Examines Japan's defense strategies, military spending, and international relations in East Asia amidst rising tensions with China and North Korea. Is Japan preparing for war?

Photo: Collected The Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) paid homage to the seven Japanese consultants who were tragically killed in the Holey Artisan Bakery attack on 1 July 2016 in Dhaka's ...

A week of shifting descriptions of Iran attack spark ongoing questions about extent of damage and goals A week later, it's unclear whether nuclear material was moved beforehand.

Japan on Friday executed a man dubbed the "Twitter killer" who murdered and dismembered nine people he met online, in the nation's first enactment of the death penalty since 2022.

Trump's reference to Hiroshima and Nagasaki is "unacceptable", survivors of the WW2 attacks say.