How Japan’s post-World War II flourishing was seeded by MacArthur September 1, 2020 Gen. Douglas MacArthur, supreme Allied commander, witnesses the formal Japanese surrender signatures aboard ...

A crowd of several hundred — every face covered with a mask — came together Saturday in Tokyo to mark the 75th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II. This year’s ceremony was… ...

Japan's militarist nationalists never really went away after World War II, they just bided their time and waited for the day when they would be able to return to power.At last, they have done so ...

But after World War II, Herbert Bix explains in “Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan,” that “Virtually the only reparations that Japan would ever have to pay—a mere 1.02 billion ...

Japan’s Crown Prince has spoken about the need to “correctly” remember World War II in an extremely rare public statement that comes amid a chorus of calls to play down the country’s war ...

During the rebuilding of Japan after World War II, a Japanese toy designer took a discarded tin can and molded it into an intricate model car. Just inches in length, it created a phenomenon in the ...

The level of contrition expressed in Japan’s annual statements to mark the end of World War II has swung back and forth over the years, to the annoyance of people at home and abroad.

The wreckage of a U.S. submarine from World War II was found off the coast of Hokkaido in northern Japan — after disappearing almost 80 years ago. The USS Albacore, credited with sinking at ...