Japanese hold-outs after the second world war are quite the never-ending source of interesting stories. Japanese soldiers ...

On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese empire capitulated after the United States threw atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was the last country of the Axis powers that continued its war, and ...

Henderson is the author of Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II (Knopf). The morning sky was dull gray with low-hanging clouds over ...

GLADEWATER – As he opens his yellowing scrapbook, his black-and-white photos from 1945 and ‘46 look as crisp and detailed as they were the days he took them. The front of Alfred Lacy’s scrapbook bears ...

Until recently, the location of executed wartime Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo's remains was one of World War II's biggest mysteries in the nation he once led. Now, a Japanese university ...

Japan and China Commemorate World War II Anniversary on Different Dates BENXI, China (AP) — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, ...

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 ...