The US, which occupied Japan after the war, arbitrarily included the Diaoyu Islands under its trusteeship in the 1950s and "returned" the "power of administration" to Japan in the 1970s.

Tokyo’s position is that the four islands are inherent Japanese territory and were “illegally occupied” by the Soviet Union, which unilaterally abrogated the Japan-Soviet Neutrality Pact.

(Image courtesy of "Jomon Zine" editor-in-chief Akihide Mochizuki) TOKYO -- Three artifacts described as "dogu" earthenware figurines from Japan's ancient Jomon period were removed from the Agency ...

The Government of Japan has generously contributed US$372,503 ... tailored specifically for UN staff and their families in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPtT). The ongoing crises in Gaza ...

Aside from the expert craftsmanship that went into making the items, the ancient figurines are notable for ... while the east and south are occupied by the Isthmo-Colombian area that was home ...

More than 2,000 firefighters, backed by military helicopters, are battling Japan’s biggest forest fire in three decades, as the blaze burns thousands of hectares of land every day. Officials on ...

In 2016, a massive sinkhole appeared on a five-lane street in Hakata, Japan. That sinkhole caused blackouts and traffic delays but crews worked around the clock to fix the gaping hole in the busy ...

The nomination comes just days after a ceasefire took hold in occupied Gaza ... as they make delicate yet paradoxically indestructible figurines out of porcelain — the durability of the material ...

Borneo was a British colony until Japan invaded it December 16, 1941 and occupied it until June 10, 1945. Cambodia, a part of French Indochina before the war, was under Japanese occupation from ...

Pleasure quarters are another matter. When Occupied Japan, under American pressure, put an end to licensed prostitution in January 1946, a whole world came to an end, a world in which courtesans ...

Concept art shows what the new fighter jet might look like flying over London Japan's cabinet has approved the export of new fighter jets it is developing with the UK and Italy, in the latest move ...