As Allied forces relentlessly pushed German and Japanese armies back during World War II, the United States War Department faced a critical, impossible problem: how to destroy the famously resilient, ...

The United States has used several different insignia on its military aircraft throughout its aviation history, and some have ...

December 8 marks the day when former US President Franklin D Roosevelt made the declaration of war against Japan before ...

World War II narratives, up for grabs. In September, China held a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the ...

Out of the 1,500 men on his ship, Del Thielke was the only one selected to be aboard the USS Missouri when the peace treaty ...

TOKYO — Friday is 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 ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba bows to the crowd after giving a speech during the 80th anniversary ceremony of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on ...

Eight decades since the end of the Second World War, the US-Japan alliance continues to evolve beyond its Cold War foundations. On September 2, 1945, on the deck of USS Missouri, Imperial Japan ...

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, ...

The Japanese leader revived the phrase “remorse” in his remarks, while also seeking to appease conservative members of the LDP. The country's postwar history was a remarkable story of national rebirth ...

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 ...