Japanese fighter aircraft intercepted a Russian spy plane over the waters west of the nation on Tuesday, while a suspected ...

Russia and Japan have not signed a peace treaty since World War II and have a territorial dispute over what Moscow calls the Southern Kuril Islands — a set of four islets — Etorofu ...

Tokyo maintains that the four islands -- Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan and the Habomai islet group -- were illegally seized by the Soviet Union soon after Japan's surrender in World War II on Aug 15, ...

Another Jewish community was established in the port of Nagasaki. In fairly short order, the Russo-Japanese War and the Great ...

While the Italian Army tank crews of World War II were undoubtedly brave in combat, they lacked decent, modern day equipment ...

Russia's defense ministry said its troops repelled Ukrainian forces who on Thursday mounted a counteroffensive in Russia's western Kursk region. The Russian report came six months to the day that ...

Despite being a slightly anonymous armament, mines are deadly and effective weapons. During World War II, millions of mines ...

Germany’s and Japan’s became their salvation. So it could be with Russia. God knows it needs ... Moscow will similarly spin it as a win. World War II was the last war of aggression fueled ...

If Russians are gripped by a yearning for an imaginary past, they will not fight for a better future.

During the war, Japan captured nearly ... Chinese, Korean, Russian and American prisoners who entered the Unit 731's camps during World War II were killed while being used as human guinea pigs ...

The first occupation of Russian soil by a foreign military since World War II is a personal setback for Putin, whose domestic image is based on being a strong ruler defending the nation’s interest.

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) — The governor of Russia’s Pacific island region of Sakhalin has declared an emergency after a Chinese cargo ship ran aground off its southwest coast.