Laura Hillenbrand's book "Unbroken" illustrates how a WWII POW in Japan (Louis Zamperini) is treated with physical and physiological horrific wrath by a Japanese corporal who even forty years later ...

Don’t expect raucous party scenes or over-the-top après-ski. In Japan, it’s all about the snow. Here’s a primer on where to go, stay and eat. By Finn-Olaf Jones Unlike the high jinks and ...

Eighty years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the first Japanese prisoner of war has been freed from the stigma and reunited with his fellow sailors who piloted midget submarines in an ill-fated ...

In the weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, the head of St. Petersburg’s prisons delivered a direct message to an elite unit of guards tasked with overseeing the influx of prisoners from the war: ...

The Kremlin said early Wednesday that American Marc Fogel’s release came in conjunction with the Trump administration granting freedom to a Russian citizen held in a U.S. prison — though they ...

The United States and Israel have long condemned the payment of stipends to families of Palestinian prisoners involved in attacks on Israel. By Adam Rasgon and Aaron Boxerman For years, the ...

Born His Royal Highness Prince Louis Arthur Charles of Cambridge, Louis is the third and youngest child of Prince William and Princess Kate, and the younger brother of Prince George and Princess ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was ready to swap land in negotiations with Russia, which freed an American prisoner in a move U.S. President Donald Trump described Tuesday as a ...

Hamas accused Israel of multiple breaches of their ceasefire agreement on Friday, a day before the scheduled exchange of three more Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners in the latest stage in a ...

Hey Dada,” my six-year-old says. “When did Japan start believing in Pokemon?” It’s day three of our journey through the land of the rising sun and we’re getting to the big questions.

Pakistan is hoping that hosting its first major multi-country cricket tournament in nearly 30 years will help erase worries of instability in the country and restore confidence in it as a tourism ...

Of that number, Japanese nationals and those who had obtained permanent resident status through marriage and other circumstances accounted for about 47,000, more than double the estimate of 10,000 ...