In August 1945, the Soviet Union launched a massive and largely forgotten offensive into Japanese-occupied Manchuria. Known ...

On Sept. 2, 1945, the official end of World War II came to pass with Japan’s signing of the Instrument of Surrender aboard ...

China marked the 12th National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre victims amid rising tensions with Japan over Taiwan and military actions. Xinhua’s December commentaries accused Tokyo of historical ...

With this year marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, there were many events, media features and other ...

Here’s a collection of excerpts from the special columns of This Month in Fort McCoy history that highlighted history at then-Camp McCoy in September ...

As this year marked the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, the princess has an even stronger wish for ...

The aftermath of the Second World War was incredibly chaotic and missing Japanese soldiers that turned up years later weren’t that rare initially. One of the most curious cases must have been that of ...

Japan has been shifting its defense focus toward Southeast Asia over the past decades, a process that has accelerated under ...

The post-World War II international order was built upon a fundamental consensus between the victorious and the defeated. For ...

The 21st century battleships would be as different from the Iowa-class battleships of World War II as those warships were ...

"The newly released archives include firsthand accounts from the biological war perpetrators. Their testimony contains detailed accounts of victims' lives in Unit 731, their painful reactions during ...

To pay tribute to their Chinese foster parents, two Japanese war orphans stage a poetry recital at a cultural performance in Harbin, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on Sep ...