From left: Japanese Minister of Education ... With 2025 marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, issues of historical perception are expected to attract renewed attention, and ...

As a volunteer cave digger, Takamatsu Gushiken has unearthed the remains of several hundred people. Excavation is not his ...

Mina Watanabe has made it her life’s work to tell the stories of the women who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese ...

Eighty years ago, during World War II, the United States operated full-scale military operations worldwide while planning how ...

Takamatsu Gushiken turns on a headtorch and enters a cave buried in Okinawa’s jungle. He gently runs his fingers through the gravel until two pieces of bone emerge. These are from the ...

Japanese representatives signed the instrument of surrender aboard the USS Missouri off Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945, to officially end World War II. China and Russia commemorate Sept. 3 as the ...

Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, 1.2 million Japanese war dead are still unaccounted for. That's about half of the 2.4 million Japanese, mostly soldiers, who died during Japan's ...

For the first time in history, the defense ministers of Japan and the United States will attend a memorial service together ...

British Indian minister Lisa Nandy today unveiled plans for festivities over four days in May to commemorate the 80th ...

Tokyo, March 13 (Jiji Press)--Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine on Thursday ...