The shocking photos show the prisoners of war reduced to skin and bone after being starved and brutally beaten by their captors until they were freed following the fall of Japan in 1945.

I was reminded of one of my early encounters in Japan. I asked some local high schoolers about their thoughts on World War II, and the first thing out of their mouths was, “Bakudan otosareta ...

As World War II neared its end, Japan found itself with much of its naval forces destroyed as the Americans reconquered Japan's newly acquired islands. One way the Japanese decided to counter the ...

Tuesday is the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ... It also thrust an ambivalent nation into World War II. Stories abound of young men joining up after Pearl Harbor.

documentWW2: Countdown to Hiroshima: The bomb that changed the world A timeline of the events in the days and hours before the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. WW2: How close did D ...