The greatest World War II movies ever capture one of the most devastating conflicts in history in historically accurate and ...

Every August, Japanese media outlets offer specials on World War II and accounts of survivors’ wartime experiences. These features center around Aug. 15, the date when Emperor Hirohito announced ...

Using pictures left by her grandmother, photographer Jennifer Sakai retraces the story of her ancestors, who were sent to the ...

No war – won or lost – is ever waged without sacrifice. Those sacrifices can be material in the loss of equipment or infrastructure, monetary in the cost to a nation’s economy of waging a war but ...

Russian diplomat, however, sees no possibility of resuming negotiations with Tokyo on peace treaty - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Among them was a Japanese sword he’d found on an Okinawa beach in the final days of World War II. It was six months after I first asked Benny if he’d be interested in finding the sword’s owner.

Museums house many fascinating artifacts—from fossilized dinosaur feces and whale earwax plugs to a tent used by George ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba vowed Friday to resolve a longstanding territorial dispute between Japan and Russia that has ...

The next four years will be more consequential and transactional for leaders in Tokyo as the Trump administration puts ...

Conservative members of the prime minister's ruling Liberal Democratic Party oppose releasing such a statement.

This year the world will mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, when Japan formally surrendered to the Allies and ended the ...