To prevent the statement from impacting the LDP race, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has decided to release it just before his ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is preparing to release his view on World War II after the Oct. 4 leadership election ...

The academic debate over the history of the Asia-Pacific War and Japan’s colonial era has been largely resolved. So why does ...

This is the story of the last combat mission flown during the Second World War over Japan. Tragically one more man would be killed in mysterious circumstances. More tragic still, he had been given a ...

In “The Next 100 Years,” I asserted that Japan was the third and least absurd nation that would begin to emerge as a major ...

Tsushima helped a rising Asian power consolidate its regional standing, set that power on the path to destruction in World War II, and fired anti-imperial passions the world over.

In this aerial footage, viewers witness the devastating aftermath of American bombing raids on Japan during World War II. The images capture the widespread destruction in cities such as Hiroshima, ...

Outgoing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Tuesday he is arranging a brief exchange with U.S. President Donald Trump, as he ...

The focus of remembrance was especially sharp in Hiroshima, where the city marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic bombing on ...

Japanese cultural productions are tweaking the formula to grab the attention of a younger generation.

Japanese politicians continue to grapple with their levels of remorse for the country’s actions during the Second World War.

Art history has struggled to address a contradictory artistic output that engaged with Japan’s modernization and occupation, ...