A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has ...

World War II ended ... Missouri, Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and Gen. Yoshijiro Umezu signed the Instrument of Surrender. The two men were later convicted of war crimes.

Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, 1.2 million Japanese war dead are still unaccounted ... aircraft accidents and crime related to U.S. troops. Okinawa today is home to more than ...

Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, 1.2 million Japanese war dead are still unaccounted ... aircraft accidents and crime related to American troops. Okinawa today is home to more ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has praised the friendship and trust that his country and Japan have developed while attending a memorial service on Iwo Jima to honor those who died in battle d ...

Seiya Matsuno, a Japanese researcher at the International Peace Research Institute of Meiji Gakuin University in Japan, donated a collection of rare Japanese wartime documents to the Guangdong ...

A new exhibit at the Illinois Holocaust Museum is shining a light on a lesser-known chapter of American history: the ...

Japan has accepted one female Palestinian injured in the war in the Gaza Strip for medical treatment, with plans to accept a second female patient in the coming days, the government has revealed.

North Korea on Monday urged Japan to investigate and apologize to Korean victims killed in the U.S. firebombing of Tokyo in 1945, near the end of World War II, a day before Japan is set to mourn the ...

What are war crimes and when ... during World War II, U.S. and U.K. forces killed hundreds of thousands of people in their bombings of German and Japanese cities. Nazi Germany systematically ...