A new film dramatises the rescue during WW2 of hundreds of British POWs from the Lisbon Maru, a Japanese cargo liner. The story has not been widely recounted – until now.

Eighty years after Japan was defeated, a wave of Chinese films about the occupation are fuelling memory and anger.

Dragon TV has started screening an eight-episode documentary on the post-World War II trials of Japan's B- and C-class war criminals to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the victory of the War ...

Here are the 10 best war documentaries on Netflix right now, covering everything from the rise of the Ottoman Empire to the ongoing war in Ukraine ...

Viewed from the distance of 80 years, the end of World War II seems incredibly long ago. For many of the American college ...

Credit: Screenshot of NHK’s documentary on 731 Unit Subscribe for ads-free reading Every August 15 — the memorial day marking the end of World War II in Japanese terms, or Japan’s surrender ...

From the doomed romance of nightclub owner Rick and freedom fighter Ilsa (Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman) in the 1942 ...

TOKYO — On Tuesday, the 61st anniversary of Japan’s World War II defeat, Imperial Army veteran Waichi Okumura frowned when he heard of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s visit to Yasukuni ...

Nitto Tire sponsors new wartime documentary about Japanese American World War II internment; lends a helping hand at fundraising events for Japanese A ...

This is the second part of a series that explores the characteristics of documentary programs in the early days of television, represented by Nihon no Sugao (Japan Unmasked), in the context of the ...

Sept. 2 marks the 80th anniversary of Japan's formal World War II surrender. The capitulation was by design forceful and ...