Despite fears of the film, about a Japanese biochemical unit, stoking anti-Japan backlash, audience criticism came from plot ...

Sept. 2 marks the 80th anniversary of Japan's formal World War II surrender. The capitulation was by design forceful and imposing, an absolutely made for Hollywood event — as in Hollywood documentary ...

A bereaved family prays for war victims on Monday at Japan's Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, Okinawa-Prefecture. Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI June 23 (UPI) --More than 4,000 people on Monday filled an ...

In one of World War II’s lesser-known diplomatic twists, Poland declared war on Japan despite having no direct conflict in ...

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, ...

Conservative members of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party are reportedly worried that the party’s resigned leader and country’s outgoing Prime Minister, Shigeru Ishiba, may come close to issuing ...

CGTN published an article on the Chinese historical drama "731," which revisits the horrific human experiments carried out by Japan's notorious germ warfare Unit 731 during World War II. The article ...

Past visits by top leaders to Yasukuni, which honours convicted war criminals, have angered Japan's neighbours.