History brooks no distortion, yet Japan's right-wing forces continue to fabricate and disseminate false narratives to ...

From denying history to the dangerous strategic shift currently taking place in reality, behind it all lies the attempts by Japanese right-wing forces to honor the militarists. How can the ...

From left: Japanese Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Abe Toshiko, Japanese Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and Chinese Minister of ...

The recent 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II inspired multiple publications on how Japan remembers its wartime history. However, there has been less said about the ...

When Chinese officials and elites berate Japan, as they frequently do these days, they often pointedly mention the atrocities that Imperial Japan committed after invading their country in the 1930s.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan paid tribute Friday to more than 3 million war dead as the country marked its surrender that ended World War II 80 years ago, as concern grows about the rapidly fading memories of ...

In December 1970, on a visit to Warsaw, Willie Brandt, chancellor of West Germany, came to the site of the Warsaw Ghetto. Brandt sank to his knees and bowed his head. At the time, the gesture was ...

On the eve of Japan's invasion of China in the early 1930s, a group of museum curators at the Forbidden City in Peking (now Beijing) gathered together and asked themselves: What would happen to the ...

As the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II approaches, only a few veterans of Japan’s brutal war remain. “Never die for Emperor or country,” one advised. As the 80th anniversary of the end of ...

Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still lives mere yards from where hundreds died, on the surface of a statue of a ...

In an ink illustration, two siblings clutch their worldly possessions — a few bags and suitcases bearing the label “13660.” The same digits are pinned to their clothing, denoting the number their ...