August 15, 1945. The end of the war was conveyed to the Japanese people through the Jewel Voice Broadcast. The decision to ...

Is it true that "war began in the Yayoi period"? The surprising truth of Japanese history revealed by rice cultivation and ...

In the summer of 1944, World War II’s Pacific campaign reached a turning point on the Japanese-occupied island of Saipan. Soldiers and civilians alike fought to the death to defend it, since U.S.

The recent 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II inspired multiple publications on how Japan remembers its wartime history. However, there has been less said about the ...

This year marks 80 years since Japan’s catastrophic defeat in the Asia-Pacific War. In 1945, the country lay in ruins. Millions had died in battle or in the devastating Allied bombings of Tokyo, ...

From left: Japanese Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Abe Toshiko, Japanese Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and Chinese Minister of ...

Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, which commemorates some two and a half million mostly Japanese soldiers and civilians killed in World War II, is one of the country’s most revered sites, visited by millions ...

Arguments about history are proliferating as the postwar order led by the United States crumbles. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. In September, China held a military parade to ...

TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stayed away from Tokyo’s controversial Yasukuni Shrine on Saturday, apparently seeking to avoid further strains in relations with China and South Korea ...