A Singaporean historian has spent decades researching Japan's wartime occupation of his country. Lim Shao Bin is driven by personal loss and a belief that remembering history is vital to lasting peace ...

-The two-stage plan, Operations Olympic and Coronet, would have involved more than twice the forces of the Normandy landings and was expected to be unimaginably costly. -Facing a fanatical defense, ...

TOKYO — Friday is the 80th anniversary of then-Emperor Hirohito's announcement of Japan's World War II surrender, but as living witnesses die and memories fade, questions remain in Japan about how the ...

Facing total destruction, Emperor Hirohito took to the radio for the first time in history, famously telling his people the war had "developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage.” Even then, a group ...

Eighty years have passed since Japan’s surrender ended the second world war. But the way Japan thinks about its wartime history is changing at pace. This is coinciding with a political shift that ...