In the final days of World War II, the Soviet Union launched a massive offensive against Japan in Manchuria. This video ...

America’s last known surviving World War II “ace”—a pilot who shot down five enemy planes—has died at age 103. Donald ...

The napalm bombing of Japanese cities remains far less notorious than the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, even ...

Historian Richard Overy explains how the US firebombing of Japanese cities in 1945 killed more civilians than Hiroshima and ...

The nuclear bombing of Japan in 1945 is widely credited with hastening the end of the Second World War. Even if true, was it ...

Japan’s capitulation was expected, and US bomber crews hadn’t flown for five days ... It never came, and late on the night of August 14, 1945, the last fire raid of World War II began. Kazue Hojo was ...

BBC's Tokyo correspondent Shaimaa Khalil explains why in Japan the 15 August is a mourning occasion known as the "Memorial ...

Eighty years ago this month, the United States dropped nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ushering in the Atomic Age and ...

FUKUOKA, Japan — Nearly 80 years after they were captured and killed in the final days of World War II, dozens of U.S. airmen were honored Friday with a solemn ceremony that also reckoned with ...

The country’s postwar history was a remarkable story of national rebirth. Now the assumptions that underpinned the last 80 ...