Movie"The story of the Japanese during the Second World War and the rise and fall of the Japanese Empire 1931-1945." Using never-before-seen footage, Japan's War In Colour tells a previously untold ...

A Tokyo museum is hosting an exhibition of color photos of Japan taken around 70 years ago, soon after the country's defeat in the war, and is calling for information on some of the pictures, whose ...

USA, Oita Prefecture--The last moments of Japan’s mammoth battleship Yamato were captured in extremely rare color footage taken from U.S. military aircraft in World War II, a war-history group said.

Activists for comfort women erected a statue of a girl which they call a 'peace monument' outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul in 2011 Japan and South Korea have agreed to settle the issue of ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - In a 4 1/2-minute radio speech on Aug. 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's surrender in World War Two, telling his subjects he had resolved to pave the way for peace by ...

During World War Two, thousands of Japanese pilots volunteered to be kamikaze, suicidally crashing their planes in the name of their emperor. More than 70 years on, the BBC's Mariko Oi asks what these ...

Japan and South Korea have agreed to settle the issue of "comfort women" forced to work in Japanese brothels during World War Two, in their first such deal since 1965. Japan has apologised and will ...