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

Beneath a park in this city east of Tokyo, there remains an imperial air-raid shelter known within the Imperial Household ...

I was bewildered that The Tale of Genji had such a hold on me at this particular moment: It is a wild, confounding work that ...

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Japan on Friday is marking the surrender announcement by then-Emperor Hirohito 80 years ago at the end of World War II.

She is affiliated with the Burma Campaign Society. To mark 80 years since the end of the second world war, a group of ten ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko will visit Nagasaki next month, the last in a ...

An estimated 50,000 to 200,000 women were forced into sexual slavery in countries occupied by the Japanese army during WWII ...

The Bulgari Hotel seamlessly mixes two cultures in high style, with tasteful touches of Bulgari sparkle. Hovering near the ...

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

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

Sen Soshitsu XV, who has died aged 102, was known in Japan as the 15th Urasenke Grand Tea Master and descendant of Sen Rikyu, the Japanese sage who perfected chado – “the way of tea”, commonly known ...