The German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called this moment a “historic turning point.” In Japan, a famous comedian named Tamori coined the (somewhat obscure) phrase “new prewar,” and it has been widely ...

Japan's recent decision to lift the ban on lethal weapons exports is not just symbolic. It signals something bigger.

In December 1970, on a visit to Warsaw, Willie Brandt, chancellor of West Germany, came to the site of the Warsaw Ghetto. Brandt sank to his knees and bowed his head. At the time, the gesture was ...

Neither country is anywhere close to being the aggressor it once was. Nonetheless, their rearming puts their neighbors on notice. Germany and Japan are rearming. The defeated World War II aggressors ...

BEIJING, May 10 (Reuters) - German contrition over World War Two stands in contrast to Japan's failure to reflect on its past, the official newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party said on Sunday, ...

Japan and Germany are drawing closer as strategic partners, strengthening their ties across Asia and Europe. Bound by shared values of liberal democracy and a rules-based international order, the two ...

Benjamin Tanaka was a prominent physician in Portland, Oregon, when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Within hours of the attack, he was picked up by FBI agents. Starting that day, according ...