Some politicians and commentators in Japan are reportedly worried that resigning Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba may break from ...

Japanese hold-outs after the second world war are quite the never-ending source of interesting stories. Japanese soldiers ...

More than 80 years after his death during World War II, a U.S. Navy sailor who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp will ...

The aftermath of the Second World War was incredibly chaotic and missing Japanese soldiers that turned up years later weren’t ...

The largest, most massive battleships to ever exist were the Japanese Yamato-class WWII-era warships which incorporated nine ultra-large 460mm 18.1-inch naval guns. The large weapons, designed for ...

The Ireichō, a book listing the names of more than 125,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II, comes to the ...

Japanese ground forces are set to actively participate in military exercises in the Philippines for the first time in ...

TOKYO — As Japan's defeat marking the end of WWII nears its 80th anniversary, and some events fade from living memory, history is hardly consigned to books. It lives on in unhealed wounds, ...

Visitors dressed up line up to offer prayers at the Yasukuni Shrine on the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, in Tokyo, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte) TOKYO (AP) ...

Breaking a taboo, President Trump needled Japan’s prime minister about the World War II attack, as she widened her eyes and ...