The Queen of Villains'' is a typical coming-of-age tale about a young woman's road to empowerment and self-discovery — except it all takes place in the body-slamming, arm-twisting world of Japanese ...

The movies of Park Chan-wook ’s Vengeance Trilogy don’t have any narrative connections, but they do share thematic links. The ...

Though her election is a milestone in a country that struggles with gender equality, critics say hard-line conservative Sanae ...

Her leadership comes as the Liberal Democratic Party forms a coalition with the right-wing Japan Innovation Party.

Sanae Takaichi has become Japan's first female prime minister, a significant milestone in the country's male-dominated ...

Japanese colonialism is infamous for its brutalization of women, abducted and forced into sex slavery. Less known is women’s ...

We think of the 1940s as World War II. But a lot more was happening in that decade. In Daviess County, more than 5,000 of us marched away to war and 226 of us didn’t come back. There were 30,245 of us ...

The Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport community joined state and federal officials Friday afternoon to welcome home U.S. Army Private First Class Lawrence R. Beard, of ...

FLORIEN, La. – The remains of a U.S. Army serviceman who died as a prisoner of war during World War II will be buried Tuesday with full military honors. U.S. Army Pvt. Blanchard E. Pruitt, 19, of ...

The Franklin County Visitors Bureau is hosting an exhibit that sheds light on a lesser-known chapter of World War II history. The "Letterkenny World War II Italian Prisoner of War Experience" is on ...

To commemorate this year’s POW/MIA Recognition Day on Sept. 19, volunteers with the non-profit Stories Behind the Stars (www.storiesbehindthestars.org) have written memorials to honor the American ...