World War II

After weeks of constant WWI analogies, Asia now debates which country is most like Nazi Germany.

The messy legacy of the U.S. Civil War has lessons for the current tensions in Northeast Asia.

Japan has in fact apologized repeatedly for its wartime past. So why haven’t they resonated?

Fairly or unfairly, Japan will always be compared with Germany when it comes to its recognition of mid-20th century history.

World War II left the Pacific with a dangerous legacy, which continues to trouble island nations seven decades later.

The Japanese prime minister espouses a view of history that seems to repudiate much that Americans hold dear.

Abe and Putin meet in Moscow. Both want better relations. Will old challenges get in the way?

Clausewitz, Sun Tzu and…George Orwell? The Naval Diplomat explains.

“Temeraire, Titanic, Yamato—history suggests the last word on naval technology hasn’t been uttered yet.”

On the heels of Pearl Harbor, Allied forces were handed a crushing defeat by the Japanese. The battle has lessons for today’s military planners.

Massive shocks that shatter outdated ways of transacting business are few and far between.

Could Japan have followed a different path during World War II and defeated America?