As she turns 24, her supporters want to change Japan's male-only succession law, which prohibits Aiko, the emperor's only child, from becoming monarch.

Exactly 85 years ago — on Nov. 30, 1939 — the USSR’s aggression against Finland began. This “Winter War,” as it came to be ...

The Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" was Japan’s most ambitious World War II bomber—and its crews' deadliest trap. Known to American ...

Japan has picked a fight with China on the assumption that the United States would back it up. In the Trump era, this may ...

The Russian Navy has had difficulty naming its ships for famous Russian admirals—in large part because there have been so few of them deserving of the honor.

Every morning over breakfast in early 1942, infamous German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel received a classified intelligence ...

In 1988, when President Ronald Reagan was asked by a reporter during the summit in Moscow what his goal was in the Cold War, he said: “we win, they lose.” When it comes to today’s Russia and its ...

Japanese Americans during World War II were closed — two months after Japan surrendered to the Allied Forces. Two women, who were children at the time, recount to CNN’s Stephanie Elam how their ...

The 1,200-page document, classified and stored on Germany's isolated "red network," provides a comprehensive guide for ...

MOSCOW - Japan's deployment of offensive weapon systems in the region of frontier islands disrupts regional security and ...

The Canadian military top brass recently signed off on a plan to create a 300,000-strong supplementary reserve.

With Letters from Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood created his best war film by taking a look at the Japanese side of World War II.