WIDE ANGLE speaks with Richard J. Samuels, the founding director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Japan Program, about the relationship between the U.S. and Japan.

Filmmaker Micah Fink talks about how and why he was granted the access necessary to make "Japan's About-Face". Fink also reflects on whether Japan is still a pacifist nation.

View an interactive map of Japan's SDF deployments around the world.

Read about Japan's military history, from ancient times to the present.

WIDE ANGLE spoke with Jean-Marie Guéhenno, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, about the crisis in Darfur.

Ask Aaron Brown your questions about the premiere episode of WIDE ANGLE, Heart of Darfur.

Wide Angle Interviews Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times editorialist who, in 2006, won a Pulitzer Prize for his writings on the crisis in Darfur.

United Nations Security Council representatives visited Darfur on Thursday, where they were scheduled to meet with refugees, aidworkers, U.N. peacekeepers and local government representatives.

See the villages and towns in Darfur where major conflicts take place.

Links to more information on the conflict in Darfur.

A timeline of Sudan's history from its colonial past to turbulent present.

(Premieres July 1, 2008) Heart of Darfur captures the desperation of daily life in remote villages, crowded refugee camps, and in El Fasher, that is now home to 100,000 refugees.