The Second World War ended eight decades ago this summer. But its specter looms large today. The war ended empires, upended ...

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

A national ceremony will begin at Tokyo’s Budokan hall at noon, the same time then-Emperor Hirohito’s 4½-minute prerecorded ...

BENXI, China (AP) — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events ...

The doomsday coming to the French town of Saint-Lô was to be of biblical proportions. The Allies had to warn the town’s ...

A pilot who never flew on a suicide mission during World War II, Mr. Sen went on to become a grandmaster of Japan’s tea ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan is paying tribute to more than 3 million war dead as the country marks its surrender 80 years ago, ending ...

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

Anderson, of Dover, passed away on Aug. 1, at the age of 102. To recognize Anderson's lifetime of service, Governor Meyer ...

Eighty years have passed since the end of a war that brought Japan to the brink of destruction and claimed countless lives in ...

"Better U.S.-Russian relations may enable cooperation among all Arctic nations," Mike Sfraga, former U.S. envoy to the Arctic ...