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JAPAN VS KOREA
For almost 2,000 years the Korean peninsula
Since 1940 Japan had been devoid of civilian politicians as the parties had been dissolved by the militaristic Imperial Rule Assistance Association, led by Lt General Hideki Tojo. Over the intervening
In this first of a two-part series, read how when faced with total defeat, China’s Nationalists held on to a small island off the Fujian coast and defended it at all costs
“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...
Eighty years after atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, the resurrection of one of its cities remains remarkable
IT MIGHT BE DIFFICULT TO DISCERN THROUGH the black clouds billowing from bomb craters in Tehran, but Iran has spent most of the 21st century as the region’s rising power. Until recently, things had re
Operation Spider’s Web, in which dozens of Russian bombers were destroyed with drones, shows Ukraine’s aptitude for blue-sky thinking. It marks an inflection point in warfare