It’s hard to imagine an environment more different from the wet, green Japanese islands where the art of fermenting rice into sake has been perfected over 2,400 years. Did Sakurai choose ...

During World War II, a Japanese pilot crashed into the USS Missouri. The ship's captain, William Callaghan, ordered a military burial for the pilot. This act of compassion is remembered today.

U.S. Marines perform a rifle salute on board the Battleship Missouri Memorial during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the 1945 kamikaze attack on the USS Missouri and subsequent burial ...

On Friday, three of the captain's grandsons will mark the anniversary of the attack and burial with the mayors of Honolulu and the Japanese city of Minamikyushu, from which many kamikaze pilots ...

Richard Yarr introduces listeners' requests for their favourite sacred music ...

The movie, directed by Bryce Dallas Howard, celebrates animals while planting a seed of interest in rescue operations. By Alissa Wilkinson Davis raises the bar on sheer brawniness in this action ...

Ukraine war latest: US envoy meets Putin - as Trump tells Russia to 'get moving' on peace deal The UK has accused Vladimir Putin of dragging his feet on a Ukraine ceasefire at a meeting of allies ...