Japan is facing its most severe security environment since World War II as three potential adversaries in East Asia – China, ...

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty ...

Day, is commemorated as the day on which Japan surrendered in World War II. The Pacific Ocean theater of World War II saw ...

The crude assortment of fighting tools used by the Japanese during World War II give clues of an unprepared and unmatched ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako attend a memorial service marking the 75th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II. Carl Court/Pool via Reuters. A commentary by China’s ...

Zamperini's dream of participating in the 1940 Tokyo Olympics was thwarted by World War II. The games were canceled and he traded his track shorts for a military uniform, thus commencing his second ...

Japan's militarist nationalists never really went away after World War II, they just bided their time and waited for the day when they would be able to return to power.At last, they have done so ...

Japan’s Unit 731 is one of the best kept and most horrifying secrets of World War II. Unit 731 experimented on Japanese and Chinese civilians as well as Russian and American POWs during the ...

Putin with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi One of the most paradoxical results of World War II is the fact that Russia and Japan still have not signed a peace treaty ending the conflict.

TOKYO (AP) — World War II ended 75 years ago, but not all countries commemorate it on the same day. Wednesday is the anniversary of the formal Sept. 2, 1945, surrender of Japan to the United ...

U.S. and Japanese Veterans of World War II spoke at an event marking Victory over Japan Day. Fiske Hanley, a B-29 crew member shot down on his 7th mission over Japan, and Bill Nagase, who was a 14 ...