There have been many terrible wars in the history of the world in which millions of people lost their lives. But there was a ...

For years, orphans in Japan were punished just for surviving the war. They were bullied. They were called trash and left to fend for themselves on the street. Police rounded them up and threw them ...

Today is the anniversary of Hiroshima – when an atomic bomb nicknamed Little Boy was dropped on Japan. On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was left devastated, with up to 166,00 dying in the blast, and ...

The last retired military personnel or civilian employee who received Japanese government medical benefits for trauma or ...

Japan has been a staunch defender of the anti-nuclear movement since the second world war It is hard to know when exactly this plan was formulated. But it is hard not to see it as a reaction to ...

Japan is Hegseth's second stop after the Philippines on his first Asia ... to humbly face the history and keep telling the harrowing experience of the war to the world so that we never repeat the ...

In the three years following the Battle of Midway, the Japanese built six aircraft carriers. The U.S. built 17. American industry provided almost two-thirds of all the Allied military equipment ...

The Second World War was the first modern conflict in which millions more civilians died than soldiers. As economic production became essential to military success, civilians were conscripted into ...

THE SECOND WORLD WAR sparked decades of scholarship. By one count, 70,000 books had already been published by 1989. The 80th anniversary of the end of the war, both in Europe and Asia, is ...