Eighty years after US air raids devastated Japanese cities, the nation reflects on its wartime suffering but with an ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This "Historically Speaking" column contains the opinions of columnist D. Ray Smith based upon the research ...

This footage shows the surrender of Japanese soldiers, as commanded by their leaders. The Allied forces have pushed Japanese ...

A 92-year-old Japanese survivor of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki described the horrors he witnessed in 1945 as he ...

A staple of Hiroshima Revisionism has been the contention that the government of Japan was prepared to surrender during the summer of 1945, with the sole proviso that its sacred emperor be retained.

The USS Cobia, a US Navy submarine, sank 13 enemy ships and rescued seven downed American pilots during World War II.

The sinking of the Lisbon Maru was a tragedy that got lost in the seemingly endless loss of life that was the Pacific Theater ...

A group of Japanese survivors of the World War II atomic bombings on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945, is set to be awarded the ...

Japan's atomic bomb survivors' group Nihon Hidankyo accepted its Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday, pleading for the abolition of ...

For many, the invisible wounds from being shunned have been as painful as the scars the world can see. Read more at ...

Russia and Japan have yet to sign a formal peace treaty to end World War II. Why? A small archipelago stretching between the ...