Rain of Ruin, a new study by war expert Richard Overy, decisively shows that the atomic bombs didn’t force the Japanese ...

The walls close in on Hideki Tojo. The General turned Prime Minister takes hands-on control of the military, with ...

Historians often suggest that America’s super-weapon forced Hirohito to surrender in 1945. Look closer, and the truth is more complex ...

Pan Macmillan; £18.99 The last eight months of the war in Europe were among the bloodiest and most destructive. Adolf Hitler ...

The revival of a midcentury home places the work of the unsung architect Junzo Yoshimura in a new context. By Design takes a ...

Emperor Hirohito's scratchy penmanship will be on show for the first time with a collection of rare handwritten “waka” poems he composed in his waning years. The special exhibition at the ...

Street parties are also set to be held across the country and a 10,000-strong concert as the nation comes together to honour ...

Join the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, Virginia, as historian author and journalist Francis Pike presents two ...

The Tokyo residence of wartime Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe is now open to the public after extensive renovations to restore ...

Unlike genetics or age, smoking is a risk factor for numerous diseases that we can actually do something about. By quitting, ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito, marking his 65th birthday, stressed the importance to keep telling the tragedy of the World War II ...

Frankie Roberts still went to Japan, where he had his moment in the sun in the boxing ring and even dined with the Japanese Emperor Hirohito. "He went well. He didn't win a medal, but we don't ...