A diplomatic row with Japan over Taiwan has China turning to Britain and France for support, appealing to their shared ...

August 15th marks the 80th anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender and the end of World War II, putting focus once again on reckoning with the country's past. The domestic debate in Japan on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even after the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was not universally expected that Japan would capitulate. Arguably, one of the most famous photos in history was taken 80 years ...