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 ...

The post-war interrogation of Military Police (Kenpeitai) Sergeant Hosotani Naoji near Sandakan, northeast Borneo, in October 1945. Credit: Public Domain Subscribe for ads-free reading One of the most ...

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A 500-pound bomb from World War II dropped by the United States on Japan exploded at a Japanese airport after nearly 80 years. One bomb out of the 179,967 tons of bombs dropped on Japan during World ...

Oct. 4 (UPI) --The Japanese government will search for potentially unexploded bombs at airports throughout the country after a World War II-era bomb detonated at Miyazaki Airport earlier this week.

Japanese-German Relations, 1895-1945: War, Diplomacy and Public Opinion (United Kingdom: Routledge, 2006). The Japanese Navy in World War II: In the Words of Former Japanese Naval Officers, Second ...

Japan's former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, best known for making a statement apologising over World War II, died on Oct. 17 aged 101, officials said. Murayama issued the 1995 proclamation on the ...

On the eve of Japan's invasion of China in the early 1930s, a group of museum curators at the Forbidden City in Peking (now Beijing) gathered together and asked themselves: What would happen to the ...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, pictured here in 2015, was the architect of a landmark Japanese apology for World War II crimes - Copyright AFP ...

Japan's former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, renowned for his 1995 World War II apology expressing "deep remorse" over wartime atrocities, has passed away at 101. His landmark statement set a ...