With the Allies closing in, Germany and Imperial Japan launched spectacularly daring last-ditch missions to save themselves ...

In 1944, the Imperial Japanese Navy was desperately searching for ways to keep U.S. forces from encroaching on their home islands. B-29s were already bombing Japan’s cities, and the occupied ...

Until recently, the location of executed wartime Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo's remains was one of World War II's biggest mysteries in the nation he once led. Now, a Japanese university ...

With the might of the United States military moving towards the Japanese island of Okinawa, Kohsei Kyan's mother fled deep into the jungle for safety. It was April 1945 and the Japanese empire was in ...

An unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II suddenly detonated at Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan on Wednesday. The blast caused significant disruption, as it left a large crater in a taxiway and ...

A 500-pound bomb from World War II dropped by the United States on Japan exploded at a Japanese airport after nearly 80 years. One bomb out of the 179,967 tons of bombs dropped on Japan during World ...

Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru (center) walks with U.S. President Donald Trump (right) during a visit to the White House, Feb. 7, 2025. Credit: Prime Minister’s Office of Japan August is a ...

Japan’s former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, best known for making a statement apologising over World War II, died Friday aged 101, officials said. Murayama, in office from 1994 to 1996, issued ...

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

Japan's former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, renowned for his 1995 World War II apology expressing "deep remorse" over wartime atrocities, has passed away at 101. His landmark statement set a ...