Clarence Craft earned the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Okinawa in May 1945. Here, 6th Division Marines ...

Shoji Nishida, a Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) member of Japan's House of Councillors, has made outrageous remarks that ...

A ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker is under fire for describing a memorial dedicated to female student nurses who ...

In the smoldering wake of World War II, few places bore the scars of conflict like Japan. Cities lay in ruins, infrastructure ...

Nearly 80 years after a devastating fire tore through a Japanese military prison during World War II, a Defense Department ...

A hawkish member of Japan's ruling party on Wednesday came under fire for his statement that descriptions at a war memorial ...

Ted Rutherford, 99, was a gunner in the Royal Navy but didn't celebrate VE Day as his ship picked up hundreds of prisoners of ...

Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will visit Okinawa next month to pay their respects to the war dead ahead of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, with their only daughter Princess Aiko ...

President Donald Trump continued his inaccurate insistence Wednesday that World War II ended for the U.S. on May 8, 1945, ...

Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Shoji Nishida on May 9 retracted and apologized for remarks denigrating a war memorial in ...

Japan's Emperor and Empress, along with their daughter, will visit the southern prefecture of Okinawa early next month to commemorate 80 years since a fierce battle there near the end of World War Two ...