World War II officially ended on September 2, 1945, when Japan surrendered to the Allied forces. However, for some soldiers, ...

Great victory deserves to be commemorated by compatriots on both sides’ of strait, Taiwan Affairs Office says.

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

His televised address as prime minister, delivered 50 years to the day after Japan announced its surrender, set a marker for ...

Murayama issued the 1995 proclamation on the 50th anniversary of Japan's surrender, expressing "deep remorse" over the ...

Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who died Friday aged 101, was best known for his landmark apology for Japan's World ...

Past visits by top leaders to Yasukuni, which honours convicted war criminals, have angered Japan's neighbours.

Her comments come after her historic appointment on 21 October as Japan’s first female prime minister, after her party ...

Japan’s former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who was known for his 1995 “Murayama statement” apologizing to Asian victims ...

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll posthumously promoted seven second-generation Japanese American soldiers, known as Nisei, to the ...

GT: As a scholar who has long been engaged in the study of Taiwan's history, could you share your understanding of Taiwan's ...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who issued Japan’s landmark apology for wartime atrocities during World War ...