August 15 stands as a day marked by transformative moments that have shaped the course of history across the globe.One of the ...

Eighty years after Japan was defeated, a wave of Chinese films about the occupation are fuelling memory and anger.

Japan and China are marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II with major events on different dates.

The horrific human atrocity of World War II ended aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay as Japan formally signed documents of surrender on this day in history, Sept. 2, 1945.

The country’s postwar history was a remarkable story of national rebirth. Now the assumptions that underpinned the last 80 years of policy are being stressed to the limit.

Henderson is the author of Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II (Knopf). The morning sky was dull gray with low-hanging clouds ...

The United States was dragged unwillingly into World War II by the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. It was part of Japan’s wider plan to dominate the entire Asia ...

NEW: WW2 bomb explodes at a Japanese airport after being buried for 80 years. The explosion caused a massive crater and led to 80 canceled flights at Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan.

Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on different dates and in different ways. Japan remembers the victims in a solemn ...

BENXI, China (AP) — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on different dates and in different ways. Japan remembers the ...