TOKYO (AP) — Japan paid tribute Friday to more than 3 million war dead as the country marked its surrender that ended World War II 80 years ago, as concern grows about the rapidly fading memories of ...

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

A bereaved family prays for war victims on Monday at Japan's Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, Okinawa-Prefecture. Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI June 23 (UPI) --More than 4,000 people on Monday filled an ...

Japan's former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, best known for making a statement apologising over World War II, died Friday ...

Tomiichi Murayama, Japan's prime minister from 1994, was best known for the "Murayama Statement," an apology delivered on the ...

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, ...

On Thursday, 18 pieces of ordnance believed to date to WWII were detonated on land at Kubasu Beach on Miyakojima, an island ...

This video examines the most ruthless battlefield tactics used by Japanese soldiers during World War II. It explores ambush ...

His televised address as prime minister, delivered 50 years to the day after Japan announced its surrender, set a marker for ...

Past visits by top leaders to Yasukuni, which honours convicted war criminals, have angered Japan's neighbours.