A Tokyo museum is hosting an exhibition of color photos of Japan taken around 70 years ago, soon after the country's defeat in the war, and is calling ...

An excerpt from this silent film produced some time during World War II documents living conditions in internment camps for Japanese Americans. For photographs on this topic, see Alan Taylor's ...

CHIRAN, Japan — As young army pilots took off on suicide-attack missions in the closing days of World War II, the schoolgirls in this southwestern Japanese town waved handkerchiefs and branches ...

At this historical juncture of the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, Japan should not continue to evade responsibility under the highjack of right-wing forces, but instead courageously face ...

The Japanese WWII Soldier Who Refused to Surrender for 27 Years Unable to bear the shame of being captured as a prisoner of war, Shoichi Yokoi hid in the jungles of Guam until January 1972 ...

A crowd of several hundred — every face covered with a mask — gathered in Tokyo to mark the 75th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II.

Former Japanese Imperial Army soldier Hiroo Onoda has died at the age of 91 — roughly 40 years after he stopped fighting World War II. Onoda, the last Japanese soldier to surrender, hid out in ...

Here is a look at major statements on Japan’s war legacy by monarchs and senior officials since its defeat in 1945.