Journalist Kavita Puri hears from veterans of the second world war in Asia and asks why this conflict has been overlooked ...

In the summer of World War II, Japan and the Soviet Union maintained an uneasy neutrality, bound by a 1941 pact that allowed ...

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

Even after the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was not universally expected that Japan would ...

A Japanese firm has created an interactive website where families of U.S. troops killed during the Battle of Okinawa can see their loved ones’ names on the island’s Cornerstone of Peace memorial.

Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...

A famed Japanese destroyer sunk by U.S. torpedoes during a pivotal battle in World War II has been discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean more than 80 years after it sank, an exploration ...