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The Japanese balloon bomb offensive on U.S. soil was a closely guarded secret for the latter part of World War II. It marked one of a handful of instances of Japanese attacks on U.S. soil in addition ...

A Tokyo-based citizens’ group slammed the Japanese government for the erroneous portrayal of the military’s role in a battle during World War II in school textbooks, says a report. The Kodomo to ...

From left: Japanese Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Abe Toshiko, Japanese Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and Chinese Minister of ...

The horrific human atrocity of World War II ended aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay as Japan formally signed documents of surrender on this day in history, Sept. 2, 1945. The ceremony lasted just ...

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, ...

The UNESCO World Heritage committee on Saturday decided to register Japan’s controversial Sado gold mine as a cultural heritage site after the country agreed to include it in an exhibit of its dark ...

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 ...

An American bomb dropped on Japan during World War II recently exploded after lying dormant for roughly 80 years. The 500-pound bomb detonated on Wednesday at Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan.