The recent 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II inspired multiple publications on how Japan remembers its wartime history. However, there has been less said about the ...

Japan’s invasion of China in World War II began with the expansion of conflict after years of tension. Following the Marco ...

Japan has designated 14 airports and 26 seaports for use by its military and coast guard during a contingency.

As Imperial Japanese soldiers scour the streets, a group of civilians in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing seek refuge in a small photography studio. Developing photographs taken throughout the city ...

This article appeared in History of War magazine issue 151. On 2 September 1945, Japanese forces officially surrendered to the Republic of China, ending the brutal occupation which began in 1937.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi are expected to travel to China for the 80th anniversary of its victory over Japan. On Wednesday, ...

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 ...

Beijing is trying to delegitimise Australia’s security partnership with Japan, once an enemy of both countries, via a new version of World War II history.

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 ...

SHENYANG, China (AP) — Yang Huafeng, a 92-year-old Chinese army veteran, remembers the troops on horseback and the handful of planes that marked the founding of communist China in 1949. It was a far ...

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, ...

Yang Huafeng, a 92-year-old Chinese army veteran is helped as he meets reporters at the memorial of the September 18th History Museum in Shenyang, northeastern China's Liaoning province, Tuesday, Aug.