TOKYO (AP) — Japan paid tribute to more than 3 million war dead Friday as the country marked its surrender 80 years ago that ended World War II, as concern rapidly grows about the fading memory of the ...

Japan's war atrocities in WWII match or exceed those of the Nazis in Europe. However, they never had to deal with a true public accounting of these atrocities beyond token payments and statements.

Japan wrote pacifism into its constitution and culture following World War II, but that era may be coming to an end. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi last week moved to allow arms sales to foreign ...

In the spring of 1945, the U.S. Navy quietly handed over 149 warships to the Soviet Union at a remote Alaskan outpost, training the crews for the upcoming invasion of Japan. In the spring of 1945, ...