Nearly eight decades after Japan’s defeat in World War Two, Tokyo’s Yasukuni shrine remains a potent symbol of its wartime ...

The Yaima Maru is among vessels to be used to evacuate residents on southern Japanese islands to mainland Japan in times of ...

Shinichi Gibo survived the Battle of Okinawa in 1945 at the age of 6, but he has lived with a persistent trauma ever since. As a war orphan, he felt a deep sense of loneliness and inferiority. "There ...

Vietnamese children living in Japan, under the protection of Nichietsu Tomoiki Shienkai (the Japan Vietnam Mutual Support Association), study in a Japanese language class in this photo provided by the ...

Katsuya Toji, center, offers incense to mourn American POWs who were put to death toward the end of World War II, in Fukuoka's Jonan Ward on June 20, 2024. (Mainichi/Emi Aoki) FUKUOKA -- A memorial ...

As living memories of World War Two fade 80 years after the war ended, traditional ways of teaching about peace through listening to survivors are becoming less possible as they pass away. Students ...

Ministry investigation said the bones couldn't be linked to the unit, and concluded that the remains were most likely from bodies used in medical education Official statement that bones were being ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party has drafted proposals calling for the early deployment of interceptor drones and high-energy weapons, drawing on lessons from the war in Ukraine, sources famili ...