Japan kept waiting on WW2 soldiers in Philippines (Agencies) Updated: 2005-05-27 22:35 GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines - Japanese diplomats and a throng of reporters were kept waiting on Friday to ...

MANILA, Philippines – Japanese diplomats investigated claims Friday that two former Japanese soldiers have been hiding in the mountains of the southern Philippines since World War II. The health ...

Japan and China are marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II with major events on different dates.

Hiroo Onoda, the last Japanese imperial soldier to emerge from hiding in a jungle in the Philippines and surrender, 29 years after the end of World War II, has died. He was 91.

Toshihiro Mutsuda was only 5 years old when he last saw his father, who was drafted by Japan’s Imperial Army in 1943 and killed in action. For him, his father was a bespectacled man in an old ...

As Japan marks 78 years since its World War II surrender, the country is forced to reconcile the history of wartime atrocities with remembering fallen soldiers. A memorial at the Yasukuni Shrine ...

Bay area 442 survivor Lawson Sakai, is part of a new documentary "442-Live with Honor, Die with Dignity," about the Japanese-American soldiers who fought in World War II for the USA in San ...

The items come from real stories of World War II, relics of the fight that led to the Japanese surrender 80 years ago. The ...

The skeletal remains of what are believed to be Japanese soldiers have been exposed on a remote Pacific island where rising sea levels have eroded the seashore, Japanese and local officials said ...

Henderson is the author of Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II (Knopf). The morning sky was dull gray with low-hanging clouds ...

TOKYO — The Japanese government is appealing to countries in Asia and Europe to skip ceremonies in China next month ...

As the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II nears, Chinese parade soldiers are being put through their paces ...