Eighty years after US air raids devastated Japanese cities, the nation reflects on its wartime suffering but with an ...

The Japanese never compensated the families for the deaths of prisoners or for the loss of land and damage to Attuan culture ...

Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan - Recent A recent paper by Japanese historian Tokushi Kasahara has revealed previously unknown ...

For quite a while during 1941 the leaders of the allied forces in Europe fighting against Nazi Germany had pleaded with the United States to join in the fight. America had sternly opposed committing ...

Japanese atomic bomb survivors' group Nihon Hidankyo said Monday a 30-strong delegation will collect its Nobel Peace Prize in ...

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize will be presented Tuesday to Japan’s atomic bomb survivors’ group Nihon Hidankyo, which lobbies ...

Japan’s popular Princess Aiko turned 23 on Sunday, as she takes on more official duties even while her future in the imperial family remains in doubt. Aiko, the only child of Emperor Naruhito ...

Being a woman born into the country's Imperial House isn't an entirely enviable role; a Japanese princess can currently never be Empress and must lose her royal title if she chooses to wed a commoner.

The ship was downed after an intensive battle with the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1942 while under the command of Lt. Joshua Nix. Accounts report that a Japanese carrier-based plane had spotted the ...