Average life expectancy for both Japanese men and women rose for the first time in three years in 2023, health ministry figures show. For men, the figure was 81.09 years, up 0.04 year from 2022 ...

Japan clashed with British forces in this northeastern Indian city during a campaign to capture strategically important Imphal in 1944 in an invasion of the South Asian country. In a speech ...

On Dec. 17, 1944, the U.S. Army’s Western Defense Command rescinded orders to incarcerate people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast during World War II; more than 110,000 men, women and ...