Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...

Kumagaya, Japan (CNN) — Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still lives mere yards from where hundreds died, on the ...

Unpacking the Local Impact of China’s Mega-Projects on Kyrgyzstan’s Regions The country’s postwar history was a remarkable story of national rebirth. Now the assumptions that underpinned the last 80 ...