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 ...

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, ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eighty years after the end of World War II, a harrowing cinematic portrayal of Japanese wartime atrocities during the 1937 Nanking ...