The country’s postwar history was a remarkable story of national rebirth. Now the assumptions that underpinned the last 80 years of policy are being stressed to the limit. Japanese Prime Minister ...

In the spring of 1945, intelligence officers from the US Army Air Forces received several unexpected reconnaissance images.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba released a long-awaited personal statement on the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II ...

His 1995 declaration of "deep remorse", "heartfelt apology" became a benchmark for Tokyo’s subsequent apologies over World ...

Japan’s former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, best known for his historic apology over Japan’s wartime actions, has died at the age of 101. Murayama passed away at a hospital in his hometown of ...

His televised address as prime minister, delivered 50 years to the day after Japan announced its surrender, set a marker for ...

His phrases ‘deep remorse’ and ‘heartfelt apology’ became templates for Japanese leaders marking WWII anniversaries.

Just as Emperor Hirohito was announcing Japan’s surrender, two US Army Air Corps P-51 fighters attacked a Tokyo airfield on August 15, 1945 during the last few hours of World War II. Their strafing ...

TOKYO, Oct 2 (Reuters) - A regional airport in southwest Japan was closed on Wednesday after a U.S. bombshell, likely dropped during World War Two to stem "kamikaze" attacks, exploded near its runway, ...

The A7M Reppu (Strong Gale) was conceived to succeed the legendary A6M Zero, but it never entered service. Reports from Japan, quoting defense officials in deep background, have said the country’s MoD ...

Japan's former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, famous for making a statement apologising over World War II, died Friday ...

Japan’s presumptive first female prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, is the face of a hard-right turn for Japanese politics. Her ...