Despite spending three years in an internment camp, Raymond Setsuda served during the Korean War. More than 70 years later, ...

YOKOHAMA, Japan — On the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II, the names of more than 1,000 troops who died as prisoners of war were read aloud Tuesday during a memorial ceremony at ...

TOKYO — As Japan's defeat marking the end of WWII nears its 80th anniversary, and some events fade from living memory, history is hardly consigned to books. It lives on in unhealed wounds, ...

The Tokyo Trials prosecuted Japan’s top military and political leaders for atrocities committed during World War II. Yet, several high-ranking figures responsible for some of the worst crimes escaped ...

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Explore the intense battle that unfolded during World War II as the Japanese launched a decisive torpedo strike against the ...

Born the day before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Toshiko “Tonko” Doi of Chicago was just a baby when she and her family were forced into Japanese incarceration camps by the United States government, ...

At the request of a Kobe-based civic group, Japan’s national archive has disclosed previously secret documents that describe Japanese troops forcing foreign women into sexual slavery during World War ...

BENXI, China (AP) — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on different dates and in different ways. Making menstrual leave ...