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President Biden said the U.S. would intervene militarily if China invades Taiwan. His comments came during a joint news conference with the Japanese prime minister in Tokyo. Other topics…

President Biden participated in the Quad Leaders' summit in Tokyo, Japan, with Prime Minister Kishida Fumio of Japan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, and Prime Minister Anthony…

Secretary Blinken met with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi in Brussels, Belgium.

Military historians Allan Millett, Ian Toll, and Jonathan Parshall discussed the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This program was part of the 14th annual International Conference on World War II…

MacArthur Memorial education manager Amanda Williams examined General Douglas MacArthur’s management of the Allied occupation of Japan following the end of World War II. This was a virtual…

Washington State University history professor Noriko Kawamura and military historian Jonathan Parshall examined the lead-up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective.…

Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi at the 2021 G-7 Foreign and Development Ministers' Meeting in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

Northwestern University History Professor Amy Stanley discussed her biography, Stranger in the Shogun’s City, about a Japanese woman’s life in Edo (now Toyko) during the 19th century, just prior to the…

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a confirmation hearing for Nicholas Burns to be ambassador to China, Rahm Emanuel to be ambassador to Japan, and Jonathan Kaplan to be ambassador to…

Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. Koji Tomita discussed U.S.-Japan relations during a lecture hosted by Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Don Carleton presented the work of 23 photographers who captured the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This was a virtual event hosted by the 2021 Virtual San Antonio Book Festival.

On September 11, 1945, Army Officer Jack Wilpers and others barged into the home of former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo to arrest him.  They found him bleeding from a gunshot wound…

The Battle of Okinawa was the last major battle of World War II. Authors Saul David and Rana Mitter recounted the events leading up to the battle and the role it played in ending the war. They also…

President Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga held a joint news conference in the White House Rose Garden. Both leaders reaffirmed the commitment of partnership and shared values and…

President Biden held a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. The leaders spoke briefly about the countries' common interests and the importance of the Indo-Pacific region.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki held a briefing on President Biden’s agenda. She spoke about the recent shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, that left eight people dead.…

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris held a virtual summit with the prime ministers of India, Australia, and Japan. This was the first multilateral summit the president had…

In this National World War II Museum oral history recorded in 2016, Army veteran Ben Bederson talked about his assignment to the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos and working on the ignition…

The December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor remains a “day that will live in infamy” to most Americans, but less well known is the devastating air attack just hours later on U.S.…

Hoover Institution fellow Michael Auslin talked about the geopolitical rivalry between countries in the Indo-Pacific region of the world (China, Japan, India, North Korea).