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 ...

Later, Mr. Tatsuno created a film with that footage called, Topaz Memories. It is the only full-color movie of life in an internment camp shot from the perspective of an internee. Mr.

A film about kamikaze pilots has been playing to packed theaters from Hokkaido to Kyushu since its release in December of 2013, becoming one of the top-grossing Japanese productions of all time ...

Letters written by the head of Japan’s imperial navy in 1942 are on display for the first time at the Fukushima Museum.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan paid tribute Friday to more than 3 million war dead as the country marked its surrender that ended World ...

Japan on Friday is marking the surrender announcement by then-Emperor Hirohito 80 years ago at the end of World War II.

Japan and China commemorate World War II anniversary on different dates Japan occupied much of China before and during WWII in a devastating and brutal invasion. Nowadays, it is China’s military ...

The country’s postwar history was a remarkable story of national rebirth. Now the assumptions that underpinned the last 80 years of policy are being stressed to the limit.

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