A national ceremony will begin at Tokyo’s Budokan hall at noon, the same time then-Emperor Hirohito’s 4½-minute prerecorded ...

BENXI, China (AP) — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events ...

Day, is commemorated as the day on which Japan surrendered in World War II. The Pacific Ocean theater of World War II saw many bloody and brutal battles take place on land and sea between Allied ...

Japan marked the 80th anniversary of its WWII surrender with PM Shigeru Ishiba expressing "remorse" for the first time since ...

Japan is paying tribute to more than 3 million war dead as the country marks its surrender 80 years ago, ending World War II.

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

August 15 stands as a day marked by transformative moments that have shaped the course of history across the globe.One of the ...

Right wing groups in Japan continue to push historical denialism in a bid to whitewash wartime atrocities. South Korea, which suffered under Japanese occupation, wants Japan to be more open about the ...

During Thursday’s event, there was a keynote speech, a wreath-laying ceremony, a rifle salute, and the reading of names of local veterans. Between 60 and 70 World War II veterans are interred at Fargo ...

Japan marked the 80th anniversary of its World War Two defeat on Friday, with at least one cabinet minister joining thousands ...