After Tarawa showed the terrible cost of attacking fortified islands head-on, American commanders increasingly turned to ...

Japan had been expected to announce the removal of lethal weapons exports restrictions as global military spending surges.

During World War II, Japan was exceptionally innovative in aviation. The nation produced the infamous Mitsubishi A6M "Zero," which devastated the Allies in the early phases of the conflict, and other ...

BENXI, China (AP) — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on different dates and in different ways. Japan remembers the victims ...

The Japanese leader revived the phrase “remorse” in his remarks, while also seeking to appease conservative members of the LDP. Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru delivers an address at the the ...

(Corrects Mitsubishi sales forecast in paragraph 26 after company clarification, updates with Chinese Foreign Ministry ...

The Victory Monument in central Bangkok, which was erected to commemorate the Thai victory over France during the war of 1940-41. Few, if any, of the commentaries that poured out after the 80th ...

The Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" was Japan’s most ambitious World War II bomber—and its crews' deadliest trap. Known to American pilots as the "Flying Lighter" for its terrifying tendency to burst into ...

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 ...

TOKYO—Japan is struggling to quell a mounting barrage of international criticism over the country's wartime acts. A United Nations human-rights panel last week urged Japanese officials to stop ...