In the aftermath of World War II, nations faced the enormous task of rebuilding destroyed cities, shattered economies, and disrupted societies. This episode explores how Germany and Japan cleared ...

The German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called this moment a “historic turning point.” In Japan, a famous comedian named Tamori coined the (somewhat obscure) phrase “new prewar,” and it has been widely ...

In World War II, both Germany and Japan surrendered unconditionally. As the World War I armistice was being negotiated, Germany won small concessions, but the allies generally imposed their will, an ...

With the Allies closing in, Germany and Imperial Japan launched spectacularly daring last-ditch missions to save themselves in the dying months of World War 2. While the German High Command launched ...

On 1940, Romania signed the Tripartite Pact, joining the Axis powers of Germany, Italy and Japan in World War II.

Just as Emperor Hirohito was announcing Japan’s surrender, two US Army Air Corps P-51 fighters attacked a Tokyo airfield on August 15, 1945 during the last few hours of World War II. Their strafing ...

(Tribune News Service) — World War II produced three legendary heavy bombers, the B-17 Flying Fortress, the B-24 Liberator, and the B-29 Superfortress. Each was manufactured in the thousands to bomb ...

Over the past week, the United States, Germany and Japan, three of the principal combatants in the last world war, moved to approve their largest military budgets since World War II, each marking a ...

The White House is preparing for a situation in Japan that could be "deadly for decades," a U.S. official tells ABC News.