In 1943, Japanese pilots dismissed a new American fighter as slow, heavy, and inferior. That aircraft was the F6F Hellcat, ...

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 ...

Transferred late in World War II, Japanese prisoners of war encountered suspicion in southwest Iowa before labor demands ...

In the final year of World War II, American forces faced an enemy that refused to fight above ground. Across the Pacific, Japanese troops turned islands into vast underground fortresses, hiding deep ...

In the first half of 1945, the Japanese press began spreading some astonishing messages: their bombings had set North ...

In World War II, both Germany and Japan surrendered unconditionally. As the World War I armistice was being negotiated, Germany won small concessions, but the allies generally imposed their will, an ...

The country’s postwar history was a remarkable story of national rebirth. Now the assumptions that underpinned the last 80 years of policy are being stressed to the limit. Japanese Prime Minister ...

TOKYO — Japan's Emperor Naruhito said Wednesday that he will honor thousands of Japanese prisoners of World War II who were held under harsh conditions in Mongolia when he visits the country next week ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Naruhito said Wednesday that he will honor thousands of Japanese prisoners of World War II who were held under harsh conditions in Mongolia when he visits the country next ...