Eighty years after Japan was defeated, a wave of Chinese films about the occupation are fuelling memory and anger.

Right wing groups in Japan continue to push historical denialism in a bid to whitewash wartime atrocities. South Korea, which ...

Eighty years have passed since Japan’s surrender ended the second world war. But the way Japan thinks about its wartime ...

With US foreign policy in flux, Japan and South Korea are finding common ground on trade, defense, and demographic challenges ...

On Korea’s 80th Liberation Day, I exhort fellow evangelicals to view Korea and Japan’s relationship through one of Jesus’ ...

Without holding down the more than 800,000 Japanese troops on the Chinese mainland in the far East, the better known European fronts in the anti-fascist war may have still struggled to contain the ...

Since its surrender to Allied forces in 1945, Japan has undergone monumental change. Here are the key shifts of the past 80 years.

Okinawa resident Hiromasa Iha can still recall the screams of his classmates and teachers after a US military jet crashed into his elementary school, killing 18 people more than six decades ago.Iha, ...

Eighty years after the dropping of the first atomic bomb, Hiroshima’s survivors and their descendants describe how health ...

On the 80th anniversary of the world’s only atomic bombings, author Lesley MM Blume reveals how John Hersey laid bare the ...

Hundreds of thousands of people were killed and wounded as a result of the bombings, but true counts are difficult to estimate. A contemporary source suggests 135,000 were killed or injured in ...

Against this backdrop, the Global Times launches the column "Revisiting WWII, Defending Peace," inviting renowned scholars ...