On Nov. 12, 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese ...

On Nov. 12, 1954, Ellis Island officially closed as an immigration station and detention center. More than 12 million ...

Fortnight ago a bald little Japanese general nicknamed The Razor became Premier of Japan. Hideki Tojo’s* sparse mustache looks as if it might blow off in a stiff breeze and his tortoise-shell ...

This April 21, 2020 file photo shows Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. (Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- No Japanese Cabinet ministers visited the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo during the three-day autumn ...

No Japanese cabinet ministers visited Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo during the three-day autumn festival that ended Sunday, with ruling Liberal Democratic Party leader and staunch conservative Sanae ...

This photo taken on Oct. 17, 2025 at the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo shows the "masakaki" ritual offering, left, sent by Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for its autumn festival. (Kyodo) ...

Japan's newly elected first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, appears to be a modern "Iron lady" in the mold of Margaret Thatcher with all the controversy that entails. However successful her ...

Hideki Matsuyama has long been one of the best golfers on the planet, but in that time he's also earned the repuation for being one of the game's hardest markers. We've seen the Japanese star flail ...

Gwyneth Paltrow is ready to talk about "Gwyneth." The Oscar winner told British Vogue in an interview that she has yet to read the biography, released in July by culture and fashion journalist Amy ...

New action games, in the style of Devil May Cry and Bayonetta, need to offer more than just great graphics. That's what Hideki Kamiya thinks, and he should know - he's behind some of the genre's very ...

The story of Tupac Shakur has been told many times since his tragic death at just 25 following a drive-by shooting in 1996. Yet a life so big and complicated is always ripe for further exploration.