He offered a “heartfelt apology” to the victims of Japan’s “colonial rule and aggression” in Asia. Ahead of the 70th ...

Conservative members of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party are reportedly worried that the party’s resigned leader and country’s outgoing Prime Minister, Shigeru Ishiba, may come close to issuing ...

As we mark the 80th anniversary of America’s atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it is easy to fixate on its role in precipitating Japan’s unconditional surrender, and thus the end of the ...

80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two, in Tokyo TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan marked the 80th anniversary of its World War Two defeat on Friday, with at least one cabinet minister joining ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba bows to the crowd after giving a speech during the 80th anniversary ceremony of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on ...

Outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru, set to step down in mid-October, has released a “Personal Message on the 80th Anniversary of the Postwar Era.” Despite backlash from hardline ...

A reporter traveled to the corners of the country to meet six World War II veterans, who had a warning for generations to come. By Martin Fackler Reporting from Tokyo Times Insider explains who we are ...

Despite the successes of the I-19 in the war, Japan was never able to connect these victories with a larger strategy for defeating the Americans and their allies. Japan’s role in the Second World War ...

BENXI, China (AP) — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on different dates and in different ways. Nobel economics prize goes ...