World War II

At UNESCO, Japan lays bare the difficulties of achieving shared values within the Quad.

At the time, the defense of Manila was the single most consequential event of the Pacific War from the point of view of the law of armed conflict.

The question vexed planners at the time, and has been debated extensively in the years since. 

The Battle of Manila was the largest urban contest of the Pacific War.

Even more than Pearl Harbor, the sinking of the two British battleships served to convince political and naval authorities of the pre-eminence of airpower in the Pacific. 

Divers believe they’d found the wreckage of the the USS Grenadier in the Strait of Malacca.

The missing Japanese make up about half of the 2.4 million soldiers who died overseas during Japan's military rampage across Asia.

75 years later, Japan’s atomic bomb survivors – the hibakusha – still remember the day in devastating detail.

In total, around 365,000 Kyrgyz were mobilized by the Soviet Union to fight against Nazi Germany.

Japan had come to appreciate the value of at-sea replenishment for its navy early on.

The greatest naval battle of the modern era is under-remembered.