Dark chapter’s telling complicated by Tokyo’s official denials, Washington’s immunity deals and Beijing’s shifting diplomatic ...

TOKYO (AP) — Friday is the 80th anniversary of then-Emperor Hirohito’s announcement of Japan’s World War II surrender, but as living witnesses die and memories fade, questions remain in Japan about ...

Sept. 2 marks the 80th anniversary of Japan's formal World War II surrender. The capitulation was by design forceful and imposing, an absolutely made for Hollywood event — as in Hollywood documentary ...

TOKYO – Friday is the 80th anniversary of then-Emperor Hirohito's announcement of Japan's World War II surrender, but as living witnesses die and memories fade, questions remain in Japan about how the ...

Visitors dressed up line up to offer prayers at the Yasukuni Shrine on the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, in Tokyo, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte) TOKYO (AP) ...

Japan has, for the first time, identified human remains from the Battle of Okinawa using only DNA testing, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said in a recent announcement. DNA from the remains ...

Japan WWII Anniversary Guests queue to attend a memorial service marking the 80th anniversary of Japan's World War II defeat, at the Nippon Budokan hall Friday, Aug ...

A team of scientists discovered a Japanese naval destroyer for the first time since it was sunk by American troops in World War II. Researchers exploring islands off the coast of the Solomon Islands ...

Police said Wednesday that a set of bones recovered at a wartime mine in Japan are human remains, and a Japanese group helping search for the remains said they are certain to belong to about 180 ...