VE Day will be honoured and remembered with dedicated programming across TV, iPlayer, Radio and Sounds marking the 80th ...

a pacifist composer who expressed the horrors of war in several haunting works. The Sinfonia was commissioned (and eventually rejected) by the Japanese government to mark Emperor Jimmu's 2600th ...

After enjoying eight decades of peace since World War II, a growing number of Japanese fear Japan will be caught up in a major war in Asia, with 62 percent in a new survey saying such a conflict ...

Japan and China have accused each other of violating the airspace around the Japanese-controlled East China Sea islands, ...

TOKYO — Eighty-five years after his ticket was first issued for a similar event, a man was allowed to use it at this year's ...

The grandchildren of Japanese war brides say they are finally able to embrace their heritage fully and openly in ways their parents weren't allowed. Cherry Parker, the first Japanese war bride ...

The A7M Reppu (Strong Gale) was conceived to succeed the legendary A6M Zero, but it never entered service. Reports from Japan ...

They were Japanese American soldiers, part of a storied military unit that faced down prejudice and suspicion to fight Adolf ...

Another day, another piece of evidence that President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war with friends and foes is hurting the global economy. Today: Japan’s central bank cut its economic ...

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A hawkish member of Japan's ruling party on Wednesday came under fire for his statement that descriptions at a war memorial rewrote the history of the Himeyuri student ...

The experience of surviving the battle of Imphal in northeastern India during World War II has never left Tetsuo Sato, a 105-year-old former Japanese soldier. "War must never happen again ...