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 ...

Casting a feature film. Production states: "How deep is the harm caused to the Chinese people by Japan’s war of aggression against China in those years, as well as by its current behavior and attitude ...

As we mark the 80th anniversary of America’s atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it is easy to fixate on its role in precipitating Japan’s unconditional surrender, and thus the end of the ...

Japanese politicians continue to grapple with their levels of remorse for the country’s actions during the Second World War.

BENXI, China (AP) — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on different dates and in different ways. Today in History: September ...

A reporter traveled to the corners of the country to meet six World War II veterans, who had a warning for generations to come. By Martin Fackler Reporting from Tokyo Times Insider explains who we are ...

Eighty years ago this past week, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing nearly 200,000 people. Months before, U.S. bombers obliterated ...

FUKUOKA, Japan — Nearly 80 years after they were captured and killed in the final days of World War II, dozens of U.S. airmen were honored Friday with a solemn ceremony that also reckoned with the ...

TOKYO — Friday is the 80th anniversary of then-Emperor Hirohito's announcement of Japan's World War II surrender, but as living witnesses die and memories fade, questions remain in Japan about how the ...

On June 1, about 220 descendants of the war dead in Japan embarked on an 11-day voyage through the Taiwan Strait to the Philippines to offer prayers for relatives who died at sea during World War II. ...