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

A statue called “Otome no Hi” (Monument to the maidens) was erected in 1982 in Gifu Prefecture. But an explanation on who the ...

The country’s postwar history was a remarkable story of national rebirth. Now the assumptions that underpinned the last 80 years of policy are being stressed to the limit.

Japan and China are marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II with major events on different dates.

Here’s a look at World War II, which lasted from 1939 to 1945. Causes of World War II The Peace of Paris – The treaties worked out in Paris at the end of World War I satisfied few. Germany, Austria an ...