India and China are in the grips of economic slowdown but it brings a lesson that they must learn, write Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo.

As Barack Obama prepares to become the first American president to visit Hiroshima, Yuriko Koike heralds statesmen who have promoted peace and put their countries’ needs first 

A US search team on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima is zeroing in on a cave where a Marine combat photographer who filmed the famous flag-raising 62 years ago is believed to have been killed in battle nine days later.

Amid recollections of horror and solemn vows of peace, Japan today commemorated the day 60 years ago when US bombers burned Tokyo to the ground in a firebombing that killed 100,000 people, nearly all of them civilians.