The aftermath of the Second World War was incredibly chaotic and missing Japanese soldiers that turned up years later weren’t ...

On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese empire capitulated after the United States threw atomic bombs on Hiroshima and ...

Japan's former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, best known for making a statement apologising over World War II, died Friday ...

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

Many narratives about World War II have emerged during the 80 postwar years, but one important question has not been ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. The United States was dragged unwillingly into World War ...

On Thursday, 18 pieces of ordnance believed to date to WWII were detonated on land at Kubasu Beach on Miyakojima, an island ...

As the number of surviving Japanese American World War II internees declines, oral historian Diana Tsuchida is intensifying ...

World War II(1939–1945) was a global conflict that reshaped nations and claimed millions of lives. The Allied powers—United ...

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 ...

TOKYO — Sanae Takaichi, a star of ultraconservative Japanese politics and a rare woman to rise in its male-dominated hierarchy, has been elected the country’s first female prime minister. Takaichi, 64 ...

Japan has chosen a hardline nationalist as its first female prime minister. She's shattered a glass ceiling, but she's no feminist, and her ruling coalition, she admits, faces grave challenges.