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 ...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, pictured here in 2015, was the architect of a landmark Japanese apology for World War II crimes - Copyright AFP ...

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 ...

"They arbitrarily claim that Japan was a victim and mislead domestic public opinion in Japan. As the perpetrator, Japan has assumed the guise of a victim and armed itself with new militarism, which ...

A bereaved person prays in front of the Cornerstone of Peace at the Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, Okinawa prefecture, southern Japan Monday, June 23, 2025 as Japan marked the 80th anniversary of the ...

Sept. 2 marks the 80th anniversary of Japan's formal World War II surrender. The capitulation was by design forceful and imposing, an absolutely made for Hollywood event -- as in Hollywood documentary ...

TOKYO — As Japan's defeat marking the end of WWII nears its 80th anniversary, and some events fade from living memory, history is hardly consigned to books. It lives on in unhealed wounds, ...

In her sprawling new novel, Karen Tei Yamashita sprinkles fanciful details (a trombone narrator!) into the bracing story of ...

After Tarawa showed the terrible cost of attacking fortified islands head-on, American commanders increasingly turned to ...

Japan's former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, best known for making a statement apologising over World War II, died on Oct. 17 aged 101, officials said. Murayama issued the 1995 proclamation on the ...

TOKYO: Japan’s former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, best known for making a statement apologising over World War II, died Friday aged 101, officials said. Murayama, in office from 1994 to 1996, ...