There are currently World War II veterans living in every U.S. state except Alaska, according to the VA. California, which ...

Russia has held a ceremony to commemorate a victory by former Soviet Union troops over the now-defunct Imperial Japanese ...

Eighty years have passed since Japan’s surrender ended the second world war. But the way Japan thinks about its wartime ...

The war in the Pacific may have ended on Sept. 2, 1945, for just about everyone, but for Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer Hiroo Onoda, the conflict persisted for nearly three decades.

The Kawasaki Ki-3 was a transitional aircraft - a rugged biplane bomber that bridged the gap between World War I designs and ...

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

Right wing groups in Japan continue to push historical denialism in a bid to whitewash wartime atrocities. South Korea, which ...

FUKUOKA—Volunteer divers started a full-scale search off Fukuoka Prefecture on Aug. 19 for remains and belongings from a ...

The release of WWII-era military documents this year has given a boost to researchers digging into Japan's germ warfare ...

TOKYO: Mitsuaki Yoshino has few memories of his father, Kumazo, who died in Indonesia during World War II. He considers three ...

The day Imperial Japanese warplanes launched a devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, sinking or damaging 19 US Navy ships, destroying 180 US aircraft and killing more than 2,400 ...

Groups supporting Filipino women who were forced to work in Japanese military brothels during World War II held a rally in ...