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 markedly ...

I owe my existence, in part, to Japanese internment. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, in 1941, as anti-Japanese fervor gripped the U.S., my grandmother, Eiko Muto, became one of the roughly hundred ...

TOKYO, Japan — World War II ended 75 years ago, but not all countries commemorate it on the same day. Wednesday is the anniversary of the formal Sept. 2, 1945, surrender of Japan to the United States, ...

Remarkably, the crew of the USS Barb did sink a Japanese train during World War II—though not with torpedoes. In 1945, under ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan paid tribute to more than 3 million war dead Friday as the country marked its surrender 80 years ago that ended World War II, as concern rapidly grows about the fading memory of the ...

BENXI, China (AP) — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on different dates and in different ways. Israeli settlers beat ...