On the morning of September 1, 1923, an earthquake with a magnitude believed to be around 7.9 rattled the Kanto region. The ...

Along with fulminating against the United States, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi reasserted China’s South China Sea claims, ...

The discovery of an unexploded bomb dating back to World War Two has disrupted morning traffic to and from Paris' bustling ...

Johnny Somali finally made his long-awaited court appearance after terrorizing South Korea and pled guilty to the charges he knew about.

French FM Jean-Noel Barrot Says No Such Thing as Global South; G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting Ongoing in South Africa The Group of 20 foreign ministers’ meeting is being held in South Africa from Feb.

Perhaps no world cinema industry in the last few decades has had an effect on Hollywood cinema quite like the imports of ...

Goebbels tried to recruit Marlene Dietrich to star in German films. Instead she worked with U.S. intelligence to undermine ...

Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier, continued fighting for 29 years after World War II ended. He was stationed on Lubang Island in 1944, and remained there for decades surviving on wild food and raids, ...

After its defeat in the war, Japan aspired to become a "cultured nation" with peace and freedom.

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito, marking his 65th birthday Sunday, stressed the importance of telling the tragedy of World War II to younger generations, pledging to contribute to efforts to promote the ...

The opening months of World War II had a number of important impacts on California’s history. Besides becoming the initial western front in the early days ...