Japan entered World War II believing the United States lacked the will to fight a long war. This film follows Pearl Harbor, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, and the assumptions that shaped Japan’s strategy.

In the spring of 1945, intelligence officers from the US Army Air Forces received several unexpected reconnaissance images. At the time, Japan's aviation industry had dramatically slowed down, barely ...

In the final months of World War II, a small team of American commandos parachuted into the mountains of northern Vietnam to train Ho Chi Minh’s guerrillas to fight Japan. They were members of the OSS ...

Eight decades since the end of the Second World War, the US-Japan alliance continues to evolve beyond its Cold War foundations. On September 2, 1945, on the deck of USS Missouri, Imperial Japan ...

Arguments about history are proliferating as the postwar order led by the United States crumbles. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. In September, China held a military parade to ...