Friday is the 80th anniversary of then-Emperor Hirohito’s announcement of Japan’s World War II surrender, but as living ...

Japan on Saturday marked the 81st anniversary of its surrender in World War II, with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi pledging ...

NISHINOMIYA, Hyogo -- Documents found at a sake museum in Hyogo Prefecture show that Japan's former Imperial Army and Navy ordered sake brewers to hel･･･ ...

Japan and Palau will undertake one of the largest recoveries of remains of Japanese soldiers killed during World War II.

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump has released a message regarding the 80th anniversary of the country’s victory over Japan in World War II, stating that “the Japanese Empire was defeated” and ...

Former president Ronald Reagan ordered survivors to be compensated to the amount of 10,000 dollars - not much, but recognition that an injustice had been done. Meanwhile, the few non-Japanese who ...

The United States, which long served as the guardian of order in the postwar international community, has now resorted to rule by force. This situation, in which major powers including China and ...

After more than 80 years, World War II feels distant — so much so that around 1 in 4 Japanese don’t know the day Japan capitulated, a recent survey has found. The survey by the Japanese Red Cross ...

A long-buried World War Two bomb exploded in early October at Japan's Miyazaki Airport. Nearly 80 years after the war ended, bombs that didn't detonate still turn up nationwide. Two more were found ...

It’s a controversial move that some fear deviates from Tokyo’s pacifist ideals, but one others say is much needed in a ...

The post-World War II international order was built upon a fundamental consensus between the victorious and the defeated. For Japan, a defeated country, the legal constraints, military limitations, ...