World War II US Army Capt. Willibald Bianchi survived two chest wounds from Japanese gunfire, the Bataan Death March, wretched captivity in prisoner-of-war camps and the sinking of his first POW ...

Master Sgt. Wilfred Toda, left, a 98-year-old Nisei veteran of the Military Intelligence Service, chatted with Japanese ...

BAY VILLAGE, Ohio -- The Bay High School Chapter of the National Honor Society (NHS) has inducted 98 new members. The school celebrated their academic excellence and community leadership in a Nov. 18 ...

A scholar is speaking out after evidence came to light that the Chinese Communist Party pressured her university to halt the publishing of her team’s research. Last year, professor Laura Murphy and ...

IRVING – A special ceremony is set to take place to honor a Chautauqua County firefighter that risked life and wellbeing to protect. The event will see a host of local leaders and figures coming ...

The Olympic flame began its journey Wednesday to the Milan Cortina Games — missing a little of its usual magic. Bad weather lashing western Greece forced organizers to move the torch-lighting ceremony ...

The capital of Indonesia surpassed Tokyo as the world’s most populous city after the United Nations overhauled how it measures urban populations. By John Yoon Jakarta, Indonesia’s vibrant, overcrowded ...

With an estimated population of nearly 42 million residents, Jakarta soared from 33rd place in the previous rankings, in 2018, that were topped by Tokyo. It's followed by Dhaka, with 36 million, which ...

The aftermath of the Second World War was incredibly chaotic and missing Japanese soldiers that turned up years later weren’t that rare initially. One of the most curious cases must have been that of ...

BEIJING (AP) — Just days after China issued an advisory against traveling to Japan, the cancellations started. About 3,000 Chinese visit Rie Takeda's tearoom in an alley in Tokyo's historic Asakusa ...

Ukraine’s deputy U.N. ambassador says Kyiv has received President Trump’s draft peace plan and is ready to engage “constructively,” while underscoring the country’s non-negotiable red lines. Photo: ...