After suffering more than 220,000 casualties, the Empire of Japan announced its surrender, leading to the end of World War II. The US forces quickly moved in to launch Operation Blacklist ...

China and Japan have markedly intensified their efforts to try and reinvigorate bilateral ties since the Shigeru Ishiba ...

The shocking photos show the prisoners of war reduced to skin and bone after being starved and brutally ... most heinous crimes committed during World War II following unconfirmed reports about ...

Now in their late 80s to early 90s, they continue to fight for a public apology and compensation from Japan, both of which ... twilight years in her bedroom After the war, Ms dela Cruz says ...

VJ Day celebrations 75 years ago A WW2 hero and a reckoning with ... the view in Beijing and Seoul that 75 years after the war ended, Japan's ruling elite is still less than sincere in its remorse ...

BOSTON--Twenty-two historic artifacts that were looted following the Battle of Okinawa in World War II have been returned to Japan after a family from Massachusetts discovered them in their late ...

ANCHIETA, Brazil--After more than 75 years ... Both believed that Japan won World War II without a doubt. “It was natural for them to believe so because they listened only to announcements ...

A long-buried World War Two bomb exploded in early October at Japan's Miyazaki Airport. Nearly 80 years after the war ended, bombs that didn't detonate still turn up nationwide. Two more were ...

A company in Japan found thousands of “phantom” coins, believed to have been destroyed after World War II, in a warehouse. Photos show the rare ceramic currency. Shofu Inc., a dental equipment ...

It also thrust an ambivalent nation into World War II. Stories abound of young men joining up after Pearl Harbor ... Roosevelt's declaration of war on Japan on December 8 may have braced many ...