OPINION: The Trump administration's bid to whitewash history, to muzzle those who suffered in the service of a flawed ideal ...

Outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba intends to issue a statement next month to mark 80 years since the end of ...

For Japan, the Sino-Russian alignment in wartime narratives is more than a contest over memory – it generates real ...

To commemorate this year’s POW/MIA Recognition Day on Sept. 19, volunteers with the non-profit Stories Behind the Stars ( ...

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, accompanied by his wife and daughter, paid their respects Friday to atomic bombing victims in Nagasaki as he wrapped up a tour of some of the worst-hit ...

Eighty years ago, U.S. President Harry Truman authorized the U.S. Initial Post-Surrender Policy for Japan. Just days earlier, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, a Canadian diplomat made a slight ...

Evil Unbound, which depicts Japanese germ warfare during World War II, set a first-day box office record among the war films released in China this year, as Beijing seeks to highlight Tokyo’s war-time ...

A grenade found in the Teruya district of Itoman city sparked and caused a small explosion, according to the Okinawa ...

In World War II, Japan fought across the Pacific and Asia—but never turned north. Why did the Empire of Japan avoid a showdown with the Soviet Union?

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Wednesday he will issue a personal message, rather than a Cabinet-approved ...

The Nisei Veterans Committee Memorial Hall in Seattle, both a museum and a community center, aims to preserve and teach the ...

Over the course of World War II, many women stepped out of societal norms to take on roles that were essential to the Allied ...