In a national ceremony Friday at Tokyo’s Budokan hall, about 4,500 officials and bereaved families and their descendants ...

Friday is the 80th anniversary of then-Emperor Hirohito's announcement of Japan's World War II surrender, but as living ...

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

TOKYO: Tens of thousands of people braved blazing heat to pay their respects at a controversial Japanese shrine on Friday ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba commemorated the millions who died in World War Two and expressed regret, following ...

The South Korean government expressed "deep disappointment and regret" over Japanese officials visiting a Tokyo war shrine on ...

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

He also worked to maintain peace in Japan after VJ Day, but as he ventured further away from the major cities he came across ...

Japan marked the 80th anniversary of its World War Two defeat on Friday, with at least one cabinet minister joining thousands ...

As older witnesses die and memories fade, questions remain in Japan about how the war should be taught to younger generations ...

Japan is paying tribute to more than three million war dead as the country marks its surrender 80 years ago, ending the ...

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