After the end of the Cold War, regional conflicts have erupted. The U.S. stepped up its pressure on Japan to contribute ...

Friday is the 80th anniversary of then-Emperor Hirohito's announcement of Japan's World War II surrender, but as living ...

Eighty years have passed since the end of a war that brought Japan to the brink of destruction and claimed countless lives in ...

Tomoyuki Sugano earned his 10th win of his debut Major League Baseball season Thursday, holding the Seattle Mariners to ...

Former Samurai Japan slugger Sho Nakata, a three-time RBI leader in the Pacific League while at the Nippon Ham Fighters, on ...

During World War II, American bombers flew over Japan, and the incendiary bombs they dropped reduced cities to ashes, forcing ...

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

BEIJING (Kyodo) -- Top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi urged Japan to "face history squarely" on Friday, the 80th anniversary of ...

The following is a tentative translation of the address by Emperor Naruhito on the occasion of the Memorial Ceremony for the ...

An "oirokashi" ceremony, in which kimonos used in rituals are hung out to dry, was held at Hachimankohyo Shrine in the town ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday vowed to keep in mind Japan's "remorse" over World War II as the ...

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Friday vowed to seek forward-looking, mutually beneficial cooperation with Japan ...