A monument several meters tall stands beside the approach to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo where Japan’s war dead are honored.

Description: When during the night of the 8th of February 1904 the relatively small Japan launched a surprise attack against the behemoth Russia and its neutral fleet at Port Arthur, it marked the ...

Description: When during the night of the 8th of February 1904 the relatively small Japan launched a surprise attack against ...

As Donald Trump intensifies efforts to broker an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine, the author looks at the agreements and ...

The Russian Navy has had difficulty naming its ships for famous Russian admirals—in large part because there have been so few of them deserving of the honor.

President Trump is pressing Kyiv to accept an outcome that yields to President Vladimir V. Putin’s demands. By Paul Sonne and Ivan Nechepurenko Paul Sonne reported from Berlin, and Ivan Nechepurenko ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Brad Setser is the Whitney Shepardson senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. The European Union is considering proposals that ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's proposal to end the Russia-Ukraine war would recognize Crimea and other areas in eastern Ukraine as Russian, bar future expansion of NATO and prohibit either ...

Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Newsweek that the deployment of the United States Typhon missile system in the country does not target any specific nation, after Russia said it reserved the ...

MOSCOW, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday that any dialogue with Japan regarding a peace treaty to formally end World War Two could only begin once Tokyo abandoned what Moscow described as a ...

Japan's trade minister said the country aims to curb dependence on Russian LNG, but can't immediately halt imports despite growing pressure from the U.S. Japan's trade minister said the country aims ...

President Trump reiterated his call on Sunday for an immediate halt to the three-and-a-half-year full-scale war in Ukraine, saying the battle lines should be frozen where they currently stand, with ...