Friday was the 80th anniversary of then-Emperor Hirohito’s announcement of Japan’s World War II surrender, but as living witnesses die and memories fade, questions remain in Japan about how the war ...

Even after the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was not universally expected that Japan would ...

Prince William and Kate Middleton honored VJ Day with a moving tribute to WWII veterans, joining King Charles in marking the 80th anniversary ...

In a national ceremony Friday at Tokyo’s Budokan hall, about 4,500 officials and bereaved families and their descendants ...

Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party's rise to power in Germany is the subject of countless books, articles, and documentaries, ...

Kate Middleton and Prince William released an emotional message on the 80th anniversary of VJ Day on Friday, Aug. 15.

Britain's King Charles on Friday released a message commemorating the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, which marks the Allied ...

Friday is the 80th anniversary of then-Emperor Hirohito's announcement of Japan's World War II surrender, but as living ...

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.

This week in Japan is Obon, the millennia-old festival based on the traditional belief that the spirits of the ancestors ...

Eighty years ago last week our country did something that had never been done before or since. They exploded an “atom bomb” ...

The southern Japanese city of Nagasaki on Saturday marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic attack that killed tens of thousands ...