Timeline of japan vs korea

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

The first and second crises over the Taiwan Strait’s small islands were crucial battles in a decade of relentless fighting

“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