YOKKAICHI, Mie -- Trains first began rolling across the Suehiro railway drawbridge in 1931, and they still do today, the structure bearing witness to all the decades of this central Japan city's ...

The history books tell us that the Second Sino-Japanese War began in 1937, ended with Japan’s defeat by the Allies in 1945, and cost the lives of perhaps 20 million Chinese soldiers and civilians.

OSAKA -- There is a stately building in this western Japan city's Chuo Ward along the main avenue of the Minamisemba area that boasts a heavy masonry facade and elaborate decorations, giving a sense ...

JAPAN'S ratification of the London Naval Treaty shows not only that the majority of the Japanese people are thinking along the same lines as the peoples of England and America, but also that her vital ...

TOKYO, Oct. 9, 1931 (UP) - The government of Premier Reijiro Wakatsuki appeared tonight to have been forced to accept the firm attitude of the Japanese military group in dealing with the Manchurian ...

TOKYO, Oct. 13, 1931 (UP) -- Japan sought direct negotiations with China today as the League of Nations council convened at Geneva in an attempt to prevent war. Baron Kijiro Shidehara, Japanese ...

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