Ten California men who fought overseas with U.S. forces have been awarded the French government's highest honor for their World War II service. The veterans were each presented the National Order of the Legion of Honor during a ceremony Tuesday at Los Angeles National Cemetery. Among ...
A Russian court on Monday rejected a request to release classified documents about Swedish World War II hero Raoul Wallenberg, whose fate remains a mystery seven decades after his reported death, Russian news agencies reported. Wallenberg, a former Swedish diplomat, helped save thousands of Hungarian ...
As the U.S. and its allies look to impose even stricter measures against North Korea, leader Kim Jong Un could find inspiration from oppressive regimes of yesteryear in Nazi Germany and Apartheid-era South Africa. Both managed to survive oil blockades with the help of liquefying ...
Four teens have been arrested on suspicion of vandalism at a cave in Okinawa Prefecture where civilians were forced to commit mass suicide in the closing days of World War II, police have said. The boys, between the ages of 16 and 19, have admitted ...
Germany's European partners now accept that Berlin is able to set and enforce the basic direction for the European Union — even if they don't like the policies.
Alas, Japan's extremists have still not given up trying to find honor in the nation's 1945 wartime defeat and and the ideology that led to it.
Around 60,000 inhabitants of Germany's financial capital Frankfurt will be ordered to leave their homes on Sunday while a large World War II bomb discovered at a building site is made safe, the police said. Germany's central bank, the Bundesbank, Frankfurt's Goethe University, and at ...
Appalled by the shocking sight of emaciated and dying dogs and horses in Tokyo after World War II, two British women set about raising money to improve animal welfare in Japan and, in the process, changed public attitudes in the country. More than six decades ...
More and more people whose relatives lived through World War II are donating inherited personal items to peace memorial museums throughout Japan. Such artifacts offer a lens through which visitors are afforded view of Japan's wartime experience. But many museums face difficulties, including insufficient ...
The only U.S. soldier known to still be living in North Korea after defecting more than five decades ago died last year pledging his loyalty to the "great leader Kim Jong Un," his sons said. James Joseph Dresnok was among just a handful of American ...
Lost to the depths of the Pacific Ocean 72 years ago after being sunk by Japanese torpedoes, the wreckage of the USS Indianapolis — the ship that delivered components crucial to "Little Boy," the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima — has been located. A team ...
Hundreds of Japanese parents grieving over the loss of their children have been finding solace in sending dolls in wedding attire to a temple in Aomori Prefecture for rare "marriage" rites for people who died single. Yuchi Shiroto, chief priest of Koboji Temple in Tsugaru, ...
