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

Right wing groups in Japan continue to push historical denialism in a bid to whitewash wartime atrocities. South Korea, which ...

Japan marked the 80th anniversary of its WWII surrender with PM Shigeru Ishiba expressing "remorse" for the first time since ...

Japan is paying tribute to more than 3 million war dead as the country marks its surrender 80 years ago, ending World War II.

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

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday pledged that Japan will never again take the path to war, expressing ...

August 15 stands as a day marked by transformative moments that have shaped the course of history across the globe.One of the ...

Garrett Graff's new book, The Devil Reached Toward the Sky, is an oral history of the first atomic bomb. Below, the ...

President Harry Truman announced Aug. 14, 1945, that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to end World War II. In several ...

World War II veterans, some age 100 or older, gathered Friday at a Lehigh Valley ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of ...

Bouverie writes a splendid history of the World War II alliance between the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union.

World War II remains the most devastating conflict in human history, engulfing more than 60 countries and dragging nearly 2 ...