World War II narratives, up for grabs. In September, China held a military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the ...

December 8 marks the day when former US President Franklin D Roosevelt made the declaration of war against Japan before ...

August 15th marks the 80th anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender and the end of World War II, putting focus once again on reckoning with the country's past. The domestic debate in Japan on ...

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. Japanese Prime Minister ...

There are no rows of white crosses along the Satsuma Peninsula or victory memorials dotting Kagoshima Bay. No markers at beaches on Kyushu bearing names of American car brands — Buick, Cadillac, Stutz ...

December 7 marks the 84th anniversary of Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbour. This fateful event took away over 2,400 ...

On the 7th of December 1941, the Japanese launched their surprise military strike on the United States naval base at Pearl ...

The recent 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II inspired multiple publications on how Japan remembers its wartime history. However, there has been less said about the ...

ISHIBA SHIGERU’S time as Japan’s prime minister is coming to an end. His party, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), is in crisis: following the departure of its long-time coalition partner, it risks ...

Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still lives mere yards from where hundreds died, on the surface of a statue of a ...

A diplomatic row with Japan over Taiwan has China turning to Britain and France for support, appealing to their shared ...