Damage to the Philippine Legislative Building as a result of World War II. At the time, the Philippines was a U.S. colony. Courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux Picture a map of the United States and ...

Why wasn’t Tokyo, Japan’s capital city, chosen as a nuclear target, while Hiroshima and Nagasaki were mostly annihilated? The ...

TOKYO, April 17 (Reuters) - Japan's exports rose for a sixth straight month in March, data showed on Thursday, as the threat of sweeping U.S. tariffs drove Japanese companies to ramp up shipments ...

The map below shows the geographical spread and intensity of conflict incidents across Sudan’s 18 states. Nearly three-quarters of all attacks have centred around three main regions: Sudan’s ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best fiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

Information on the latest cherry blossom conditions. (The page is in Japanese. Please right click to use your browser’s translation function.) ...

Night - Partly cloudy. Winds variable at 2 to 6 mph (3.2 to 9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 48 °F (8.9 °C). Mostly sunny with a high of 78 °F (25.6 °C) and a 60% chance of precipitation ...

Partly cloudy with a high of 53 °F (11.7 °C) and a 39% chance of precipitation. Winds W at 17 to 24 mph (27.4 to 38.6 kph). Night - Clear. Winds variable at 1 to 13 mph (1.6 to 20.9 kph). The ...

Map Shows How Trump ... The discussion of Ukraine's future sparked comparisons of another World War II meeting, according to Stefan Wolff, professor of international security at the University ...

Portugal's voyages of discovery turned the nation into a trading empire. Maps, such as the 1502 Cantino ... commerce between its own citizens and Japan, the Portuguese served as middlemen, trading ...