World War II

TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Saturday marked the 75th anniversary of its surrender in World War II, with Emperor Naruhito…

TOKYO (AP) — Seventy-five years after the end of World War II, more than one million Japanese war dead are…

TOKYO (Reuters) – In a 4 1/2-minute radio speech on Aug. 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito announced Japan’s surrender in World…

TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Sunday marked its 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing, with…

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — For nearly 70 years, until he turned 85, Lee Jong-keun hid his past as an atomic…

Holocaust survivor Florence Schulmann has always worried that if she went into schools to recount her experience, it would sound…

Every day, Pawel Sawicki, head of social media at the Auschwitz Museum, posts several photos of victims of the former…

The coronavirus pandemic is the worst global crisis since World War II, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday, expressing concern…

Fears are growing that this year’s Olympics may be postponed or axed because of the coronavirus pandemic but Japan has…

Germany marks 75 years since the destruction of Dresden in World War II on Thursday, an anniversary seized upon by…