Chandler Museum hosts an event to remember Japanese American internment with performances, lectures, and Ireichō book ...

On Thursday, 18 pieces of ordnance believed to date to WWII were detonated on land at Kubasu Beach on Miyakojima, an island ...

His televised address as prime minister, delivered 50 years to the day after Japan announced its surrender, set a marker for ...

Many narratives about World War II have emerged during the 80 postwar years, but one important question has not been ...

The Tokyo Trials prosecuted Japan’s top military and political leaders for atrocities committed during World War II. Yet, several high-ranking figures responsible for some of the worst crimes escaped ...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who issued Japan’s landmark apology for wartime atrocities during World War ...

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 ...

Conservative members of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party are reportedly worried that the party’s resigned leader and country’s outgoing Prime Minister, Shigeru Ishiba, may come close to issuing ...

Japan’s former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who was known for his 1995 “Murayama statement” apologizing to Asian victims ...

In “Shell Song,” author Sharon Fujimoto Johnson shares the experience of her grandfather, who was imprisoned at Sand Island, then transferred to Honouliuli internment camp.

A lieutenant in the Army in the Philippines, he survived sinking ships after being captured. His remains will be laid to rest ...