This video tells the story of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and his warning that Japan could not sustain a war against the United States during World War II. It traces Japan’s early victories, America’s ...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida reaffirmed the nation's anti-war pledge at a ceremony remembering the end of World War II. Kishida made the remarks in an address at Japan's National Memorial ...

Japanese commanders entered Guadalcanal confident the U.S. Marines would break—but World War II had other plans. Follow ...

Visitors dressed up line up to offer prayers at the Yasukuni Shrine on the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, in Tokyo, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte) TOKYO (AP) ...

Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...

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.

A regional airport in Japan closed on Wednesday after an undetonated bomb likely dropped by the U.S. in World War II exploded, canceling dozens of flights though causing no injuries, Japanese ...

Yet as the world marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the great war, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has ...

The joint operations between China and Russia combined with threats coming from North Korea pose the greatest threat to global order since World War II, Japan’s defense ministry said in a new document ...

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 ...