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

Photo courtesy of Russian Foreign Ministry/UPI Aug. 28 (UPI) --China's foreign ministry announced Thursday that Russian ...

South Surrey resident Miriam Zwaan-Van Veen with a map of the former Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), where she was born ...

Fought in the jungles of northeast India, Imphal and Kohima were the sites of some of the fiercest fighting of WWII—where the ...

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

Ottawa, ON - Today, the Honourable Jill McKnight, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence, and the Honourable David J ...

In February 1942, part of the ceiling of a mine shaft collapsed, flooding the mine and killing the 183 workers inside.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba expressed “remorse” over the war in an Aug. 15 address. The regretful behavior reflects a ...

This summer, we’re marking the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II. That conflict is fading from living memory. But wartime disputes live on in Asia — and people are still unearthing ...

A new national survey shows the second world war dominates Australians’ understanding of their military history, but knowledge is limited to the Pacific War.