An air war on civilians is the only means Putin currently has to pressure Ukraine. But history shows this tactic rarely ends ...

While affluent Japanese enjoyed a comfortable lifestyle in urban Manchuria, poverty pervaded the back alleys of major cities. And one of the main pillars of national finances was profits from the ...

On September 18, 1931, the explosion of the Japanese-owned railway track near the city of Mukden, Manchuria in northeastern China, marked the beginning of a full-scale Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

General Tatekawa found out something was afoot in Manchuria! Insubordinate members of the Kwantung Army were looking to start a war with China. However, when he got there he told the leaders his ...

United States President Donald Trump was“not happy” with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, this week.For three ...

As the rising powers of Germany and Japan sought to emulate established colonial titans, the world was consumed by war.

Remembering World War II in Brezhnev’s Hero City” (Bloomsbury, 2017), about Victory Day and the power of historical memory. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II ...

The Red Army also rounded up 600,000 Japanese soldiers in northern China and Manchuria; all of them were sent to labor ... Large populations, sometimes entire cities, were uprooted, evacuated, or ...