The country’s postwar history was a remarkable story of national rebirth. Now the assumptions that underpinned the last 80 ...

Right wing groups in Japan continue to push historical denialism in a bid to whitewash wartime atrocities. South Korea, which ...

Japan's role as a peace promoter faces increasing challenges in a conflict-prone world, even as Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ...

Since its surrender to Allied forces in 1945, Japan has undergone monumental change. Here are the key shifts of the past 80 ...

Eighty years have passed since the end of a war that brought Japan to the brink of destruction and claimed countless lives in the Asian countries it i･･･ ...

August 15 stands as a day marked by transformative moments that have shaped the course of history across the globe.One of the ...

Japan and China are marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II with major events on different dates.

Japan paid tribute Friday to nearly 3 million war dead as the country marked its surrender that ended World War II 80 years ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan paid tribute Friday to more than 3 million war dead as the country marked its surrender that ended World ...

Tatsukuma Ueno, 97, a former Japanese army pilot, took the stage at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo to tell his story 80 years after the end of World War II.

Hiroshi Moriyama, the No. 2 figure in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, visited the war-linked Yasukuni shrine on Thursday ...