While Japan won’t walk away from its alliance with the United States, the linchpin of the Asian country’s diplomacy and ...

It invaded China in the 1930s and controlled the northeastern territory known as Manchuria. War atrocities, including the Nanking Massacre and the use of chemical and biological weapons and human ...

In 1931, Japan invaded northeast China (Manchuria) and created the Japanese colony of Manchukuo. In 1937, Japan invaded China, starting World War II in the Pacific region. Nobody thinks that Japan ...

The Japanese sought to compensate for their lack of foodstuffs and raw materials by establishing an empire on the Asian mainland, in Korea and China, initially in Manchuria. This brought them into ...

The U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945, while the Soviets invaded Japanese-occupied Manchuria in northeast China on Aug. 9. “We won World War II on August 15 ...