The arrival of the American military in Okinawa in the spring of 1945 marked the beginning of one of the bloodiest battles in ...

President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will not attend what could be the first direct peace talks ...

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LONDON -- Even if the end of World War II in Europe spawned one of the most joyous days the continent ever lived, Thursday’s ...

PARIS—As France prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the Nazi surrender to Allied forces, survivors of World War II reflect on painful memories of fear, deprivation and persecution shaped by ...

Tokyo has lodged a protest against Beijing after a Chinese helicopter "violated" Japan's airspace and four vessles entered its territorial waters around disputed islands. The Japanese foreign ...

The experience of surviving the battle of Imphal in northeastern India during World War II has never left Tetsuo Sato, a 105-year-old former Japanese soldier. "War must never happen again ...

Historians, however, call September 2, 1945, the day Japan signed surrender documents aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay as V-J Day, and the official end of World War II.

Without China, Japan would not have an empire, and this is what it desired above all else. The problem, however, was that to fuel its war against China’s nationalist Kuomintang armies required ...

This is the second time a World Expo is being held in Osaka, after being held there previously in 1970. Overseas tourists to Japan hit a record ... of being weapons of war. The “ANIMA ...

Beneath the eerie waves of Truk Lagoon, the seabed spins a tale of devastation, loss, and shattered pride that spans into the world’s most haunting naval graveyard. China caves on 125% tariff ...