This is the tragic reality of how Japan confronts its wartime history. Year after year, Japanese officials mark the anniversary of World War II (WWII) with the same script. Cloaked in the language ...

for the souls of the aborted fetuses of women raped in Japan's former imperial possessions in Asia by Soviet troops on their way home soon after the end of World War II. The "mizuko kuyo" ceremony ...

After being expanded in 1988, a second major renovation begun in 2023 and was recently completed with the support of Japan-China friendship organizations. Participants in the tree-planting ...

CHIKUSHINO, Fukuoka -- A memorial ceremony was held on May 14 at a former rest home in Chikushino, Fukuoka Prefecture, for the souls of the aborted fetuses of women raped in Japan's former ...

US troops in the Pacific in WWII often tuned their radios ... In 1941, she traveled to Japan to visit an ailing aunt and was stranded there after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Refusing to renounce ...

"The prime minister expressed his intention to take care that no such mistakes are made again," Tamaki told reporters after the meeting. "I take what he said seriously." The Okinawa governor ...

Although World War II was not yet over — Japan continued to fight the United ... Miller stayed in Europe for another three years after the war, allowing him to bond with fellow service members ...

Soon after that, he participated in three surrenders ... Hirohito had surrendered and commanded all of the armed forces of Japan to surrender,” Sanders said. “That led to the arrangement ...

Police on a Japanese holiday island have arrested three Chinese nationals after thousands of protected ... as “national natural monuments” in Japan because of their cultural and scientific ...

(Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan will continue to demand the full removal of new tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump, the top government negotiator said Friday, after a U.S.-Britain ...

That contradiction sits at the heart of Japan’s ongoing corporate reform story. After years of transformation, can this quiet revolution survive the chill winds of a shifting global trade ...

Japan has 212 so-called parent-child listings, which is down from 285 in 2020, but still more than the 178 in Europe and 59 in the US, according to Jefferies Financial Group.