On a sprawling Sino-Japanese war film set in a Shanghai studio, Japanese actor Tenma Shibuya leaned into this reporter and quietly warned, "Don't speak Japanese." Chinese parents and their son, ...

After a parent dies, children commonly wish they had asked more questions about their family’s history. Anyone who has ever ...

The story of Japan’s Kamikaze pilots is one of the most harrowing chapters in the history of World War II. As Japan faced ...

Premieres Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream with KPBS+. Eighty years after the devastating atomic bombings ...

As two principal Axis powers in World War II, Japan and Germany embarked on starkly divergent paths in the decades that ...

From Pope Francis to Ozzy Osbourne, Dick Cheney to Virginia Giuffre, here's a roll call of some of the influential figures ...

The world is changing, and no one is ready for this new team up of the most dangerous countries in the world. China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea have formed a powerful new alliance that’s rewriting ...

The legend of Jasper Maskelyne, a British stage magician who helped hide Allied military installations during World War II, has likely been embellished beyond his actual accomplishments.

No one attends the Doha Forum to hear balanced discussions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The annual conference—the ...

WASHINGTON — From religious leaders and politicians to activists and scientists, the world said goodbye to a number of ...

The death of Pope Francis brought change to the Catholic Church, which counts 1.4 billion adherents and is now led — for the ...

In the good old days, the hanky-panky was hidden, since the United States signed both the United Nations and Organization of American States charters, which stated that forced regime change was ...