A Small Canadian Mistake on the USS Missouri Nearly Halted Japan’s Surrender Eighty years ago, U.S. President Harry Truman authorized the U.S. Initial Post-Surrender Policy for Japan. Just days earlier...
Why Japanese Tanks Were Doomed in the Pacific Theater Today, the Pacific remains a prominent strategic interest for the U.S. military, but the Marine Corps recently deactivated...
US, South Korea and Japan Open Joint Air and Naval Exercise The United States, South Korea and Japan opened an air and naval exercise off a South Korean island in their latest joint...
Bones Found at Japanese Site Where Korean Forced Laborers Died in WWII Three possible limb bones and a skull were found in the past two days by Korean divers at the former site of the Chosei Mine...
South Korea Must Navigate the ‘Trump Risk’ at Key Summits in Japan and US Barely two months into office, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung faces a pivotal foreign policy test as heads into back-to...
US Seeks Shipbuilding Expertise from South Korea and Japan to Counter China American lawmakers are using a trip to South Korea and Japan to explore how the United States can tap those allies’...
Japan Marks End of World War II as Survivors Remember Wartime Emperor's Surrender Speech 80 Years Ago A national ceremony will begin at Tokyo’s Budokan hall at noon, the same time then-Emperor Hirohito’s 4½-minute prerecorded...
Japan and China Commemorate World War II Anniversary on Different Dates Japan occupied much of China before and during WWII in a devastating and brutal invasion that, by some estimates, killed 20...
Nagasaki Marks 80th A-Bomb Anniversary as Survivors Put Hopes of Nuclear Ban in the Hands of Youth The United States launched the Nagasaki attack on Aug. 9, 1945, killing 70,000 by the end of that year.
Japanese Warships Visit New Zealand's Capital for the First Time in Almost 90 Years Japanese warships docked in New Zealand ’s capital for the first time in almost 90 years amid efforts by Tokyo to deepen its...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
![Koreas Tensions](http://images05.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-09/ApNewsroom_Koreas_Tensions_13022.jpg?itok=tQo_G__k "Protesters shout slogans during a press conference to oppose the military exercise called Freedom Edge in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Sept. 15, 2025. A banner reads "Oppose Freedom Edge." (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)")
