TAIPEI -Taiwan’s Defence Ministry said on Feb 28 that the history of World War II shows that aggression and expansion will end in failure, responding to Chinese comments that the island would ...

Iichi Marumo started competing in his late 80s, after a life spent farming, publishing poetry and volunteering to fly in a ...

In South Asia, India was clearly worried about the ... China and the Koreas, mindful of Japanese atrocities against their peoples in World War II, were concerned about how Japan's offer of ...

Shortly after the end of World War II, in 1950, Asia's share of global GDP had slumped to 17%, compared with Europe's 39% and the U.S.'s 27%. After the war, Japan became the first Asian nation to ...

Amid rising tensions and possible changes to U.S. foreign policy in the Indo-Pacific, the relationship between Japan and the ...

But to Filipinos like Fernando Vasquez-Prada - who were forced to learn the tune as children by the Japanese occupation forces in the second world war - the song triggers memories ... promptly told ...