Tokyo, Aug. 19 (Jiji Press)--Russian President Vladimir Putin has released a statement on the 80th anniversary of the Soviet attack on a then Japanese island after Japan's surrender in World War II.

TO prevent the mistakes of war from being repeated, it is important to preserve the records and memories of the tragedy. The suffering of Japanese people subjected to internment by the Soviet Union ...

Russia, the successor state to the Soviet Union, and Japan have never signed a treaty formally ending their hostilities during World War Two. Soviet troops took control of four islands off Japan's ...

On Nov. 12, 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese ...

Stanislaw Pawlinski (right), recovered from his injuries, pictured in Inveraray, 1946. Stalin had allowed the Poles to form an Army outwith it's borders under the command of General Anders. The young ...

As the United States dropped its atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, 1.6 million Soviet troops launched a surprise attack on the Japanese army occupying eastern Asia. Within days, ...

Aug 9, 1945: CPC Central Committee Chairman Mao Zedong announces that the Chinese people warmly welcome the Soviet Union's declared war on Japan Aug 9, 1952: The Central People's Government adopts the ...

Candace Owens has been accused by social media users of pushing "Soviet Russian propaganda" after weighing in on bombings in Japan and Germany during World War II. As Carlson received criticism from ...

A 103-year-old former soldier of the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Army still vividly remembers suffering a sudden Soviet attack on one of the Chishima islands, also known as the Kuril Islands, he had ...

The post-World War II discourse was conditioned by the antipathy of the West to the Soviet Union. Annual Victory Day celebrations in Europe fail to highlight the decisive role of the Red Army, the 27 ...