A. W. A. Pollock, The Russo-Japanese War: Its Lessons for Great Britain and the United States, The North American Review, Vol. 180, No. 579 (Feb., 1905), pp. 243-248 Free online reading for over 10 ...

Japan lost 29 aircraft and five midget submarines at Pearl Harbor - and 64 of its servicemen were killed. Pearl Harbor set in motion a chain of events that would alter the course of history. After the ...

The United States entered World War II as a result of the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and other American military bases on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.

Editor's note: In honor of Independence Day — this year, we mark 249 years since the United States parted with Great Britain ...

A surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in 1941 precipitated a U.S. declaration of war against the Empire of Japan and shortly later against Germany and Italy as well.

Less than 40 years after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, when Japan began to rapidly modernize, it defeated Russia, one of the world’s great powers, in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5.

But in July 1941, the United States and Britain had imposed an oil embargo on Japan that threatened to starve the Japanese war machine. To avert this, the Imperial Navy was determined to seize the ...