The manga is not set in Japan, but in the former Soviet Union. It was adapted from “The Unwomanly Face of War,” a book by 2015 Nobel Literature Prize-winning author Svetlana Alexievich.

As deputy consul, he negotiated with the Soviet Union to win control of the Manchurian Railroad at a favorable price for Japan. However, Japan's cruel treatment of the Chinese in its quest for ...

In northernmost Hokkaido, residents can easily see Russian-held islands that once belonged to Japan. Some still hold out hope for the islands’ return.

The hard-liners hoped it would keep the Soviet Union, which had recently ended a neutrality agreement with Japan, from declaring war. On July 27, when Japan's government ignored an Allied ...

The Soviet Union's MiG-25 was a big ... miles to the Japanese airbase at Hakodate (shown above). After months in Japan, where western governments dissected the jet to figure out its capabilities ...

A combination of the Japanese and former Manchurian armies fought against the enemy made up of the former Soviet Union and Mongolia. Japan suffered a devastating defeat at Nomonhan. What appeared ...