Out of the 1,500 men on his ship, Del Thielke was the only one selected to be aboard the USS Missouri when the peace treaty ...

A diplomatic row with Japan over Taiwan has China turning to Britain and France for support, appealing to their shared ...

World War II narratives, up for grabs. In September, China held a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the ...

The Wienermobile is making two stops at Salem Kroger locations Sunday. BENXI – Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on ...

On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito gave a speech on the radio in which he announced the unconditional ...

Gregory Golodoff spent most of his years on a quiet Alaska island, living an ordinary life, managing a co-op store, fishing for crab and serving as the village council president. But Golodoff’s recent ...

An American bomb dropped on Japan during World War II recently exploded after lying dormant for roughly 80 years. The 500-pound bomb detonated on Wednesday at Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will mark the 75th anniversary of its World War Two surrender on Saturday in a memorial ceremony scaled back because of the COVID-19 pandemic, as ties with neighbours China and ...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, pictured here in 2015, was the architect of a landmark Japanese apology for World War II crimes - Copyright AFP ...

The state-sanctioned cruelty inflicted upon POWs and indigenous peoples by Japanese soldiers from the 1920s to the ’40s is told in unflinching detail by Bryan Mark Rigg in “Japan’s Holocaust: History ...

Mitoma’s photo with WWII soldier Onoda ignites Asia backlash, reflects Japan’s distorted understanding of aggression history, experts say ...