Fresh calls involving Tokyo’s Imperial Palace could spell turning point for repatriating looted war relics after decades of ...

A paratrooper with the 187th Regimental Combat Team pauses momentarily while the man below clears the area over Korea in September 1951. (U.S. Air Force) As an educator, historian, and someone who is ...

Historically, unconditional surrender to the United States has been followed by prolonged US military occupation.

The Israeli military said it had sent a broad wave of strikes at the Iranian capital early Saturday. Some strikes hit an area ...

Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi arrived on the island of Iwo Jima in June 1944. He found a garrison led by men who argued over water rationing. Navy commanders demanded the troops defend the island at ...

In this speech to the Allied Council for Japan, General Douglas MacArthur urges democratic reform and denounces war as a force that brings immense human suffering. Pulte purge: Hundreds replaced amid ...

This story was originally published in the Lewiston Tribune on Sept. 2, 2020. When World War II officially ended 75 years ago today, local farm boy Edwin Smith had one of the best seats in the house ...

On Oct. 28, 2025, President Donald Trump addressed a Business Leaders Dinner in Tokyo, reminding his audience of a forgotten chapter in history. "A lot of people don’t know that about General Douglas ...

It is one of the most iconic photos of the Second World War: General Douglas MacArthur wades through knee-deep waters on the approach to “Red Beach” located north of Palo near Tacloban on Leyte Island ...

Seventy-five years ago, on September 15, 1950, U.S. forces under the command of Gen. Douglas MacArthur landed at Inchon, a port located near the waist of the Korean peninsula. Korea is shaped like a ...

After the atomic bomb strikes on Japan in early August 1945, followed by Russian forces attacking the Japanese army in Manchuria, the Japanese government, finally, signaled its willingness to ...