Some politicians and commentators in Japan are reportedly worried that resigning Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba may break from ...

A new book chronicles the tense negotiations that secured the return of nearly 3,000 Allied civilians held by the Japanese ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba stands after giving a speech during the National Memorial Ceremony for the War Dead in Tokyo on Aug. 15, marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.

BENXI, China — 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 in a ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, second-generation Japanese American soldiers signed up to fight for the United States in World War II even as their families were locked up in ...

World War II in the Pacific is often remembered through dramatic naval battles and heroic last stands. It featured destroyers charging battleships, aircraft carriers launching endless waves, and the ...

Based on a Smithsonian National Museum of American History exhibition, Righting a Wrong traces the story of Japanese American incarceration during World War II and the people who survived it. Still ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The morning of August 16, 1945 in Kumagaya, Japan. - Matsuoka Nobumitsu/Kumagaya City Library Eighty years later, the scars of the ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito visited Iwo Jima on Monday and paid tribute to thousands of Japanese and Americans who died in one of World War II’s bloodiest battles. Naruhito and his wife, Empress Masako, ...

A Sept. 22, 1943, aerial view of the Ellwood oil field showing the oil piers bombarded by the Japanese submarine I-17 on Feb. 23, 1942, and the route of the submarine (S). The location of the Wheeler ...

A United Tribes Technical College memorial honoring Japanese Americans interned during World War II will conduct opening ceremonies Friday and Saturday, Sept. 5-6. At right, Duncan Williams guides ...

Oversized panels are set up inside the B.F. Hamilton Library on Franklin College’s campus, part of the exhibit “A Resilient ...