Sept. 2 marks the 80th anniversary of Japan's formal World War II surrender. The capitulation was by design forceful and imposing, an absolutely made for Hollywood event — as in Hollywood documentary ...

In 1943, Japanese pilots dismissed a new American fighter as slow, heavy, and inferior. That aircraft was the F6F Hellcat, ...

Transferred late in World War II, Japanese prisoners of war encountered suspicion in southwest Iowa before labor demands ...

Seven Japanese American soldiers were promoted to officer ranks in a solemn ceremony Monday, eight decades after they died fighting for the U.S. during World War II despite having been branded "enemy ...

TOKYO — As Japan's defeat marking the end of WWII nears its 80th anniversary, and some events fade from living memory, history is hardly consigned to books. It lives on in unhealed wounds, ...

Conservative members of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party are reportedly worried that the party’s resigned leader and country’s outgoing Prime Minister, Shigeru Ishiba, may come close to issuing ...

At a time of immigration raids in the U.S. participants emphasized that forced detentions like those during WWII must never ...

Hideo Shimizu L visits the Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Imperial Army in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Aug. 13, 2024. After a 79-year ...