After becoming allies to disastrous effect in the 1940s, Berlin and Tokyo are finding new reasons to team up — including rebuilding their militaries. Shinjiro Koizumi, Japan’s defense minister, and ...

BERLIN—Germany said it had scrapped a €15.2 billion project (equivalent to $17.2 billion) to build its biggest military ship since the end of World War II in the latest sign of the country’s rapidly ...

BERLIN — In 1940, the imperial regimes of Germany and Japan joined what would be known as the Axis powers, bound by mutual opposition to the United States. They fought a world war, and they lost it, ...