In 1943, the Imperial Japanese Navy rounded up and murdered German citizens working in New Guinea, nationals of a country[...

World War II narratives, up for grabs. In September, China held a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will mark the 75th anniversary of its World War Two surrender on Saturday in a memorial ceremony scaled back because of the COVID-19 pandemic, as ties with neighbours China and ...

Japanese-German Relations, 1895-1945: War, Diplomacy and Public Opinion (United Kingdom: Routledge, 2006). The Japanese Navy in World War II: In the Words of Former Japanese Naval Officers, Second ...

The state-sanctioned cruelty inflicted upon POWs and indigenous peoples by Japanese soldiers from the 1920s to the ’40s is told in unflinching detail by Bryan Mark Rigg in “Japan’s Holocaust: History ...

A diplomatic row with Japan over Taiwan has China turning to Britain and France for support, appealing to their shared ...

The A7M Reppu (Strong Gale) was conceived to succeed the legendary A6M Zero, but it never flew. Reports from Japan, quoting defense officials in deep background, have said the country's MoD (Ministry ...

An American bomb dropped on Japan during World War II recently exploded after lying dormant for roughly 80 years. The 500-pound bomb detonated on Wednesday at Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan.

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. Japan remembers the victims ...

TOKYO, March 28 (Reuters) - The Japanese military was involved in mass suicides in Okinawa during World War Two, a court ruled on Friday, dismissing a case for damages against Nobel Prize-winning ...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, pictured here in 2015, was the architect of a landmark Japanese apology for World War II crimes - Copyright AFP ...

Japan's former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, best known for making a statement apologising over World War II, died on Oct. 17 aged 101, officials said. Murayama issued the 1995 proclamation on the ...