World War II casts a very long shadow in East Asia. Eighty years after ending with Japan’s surrender to Allied forces on Sept. 2, 1945, the conflict continues to stir debate over the past, in the ...

Japan has designated 14 airports and 26 seaports for use by its military and coast guard during a contingency.

On 2 September 1945, Japanese forces officially surrendered to the Republic of China, ending the brutal occupation which began in 1937. Since the end of the subsequent Chinese Civil War, this victory ...

Despite fears of the film, about a Japanese biochemical unit, stoking anti-Japan backlash, audience criticism came from plot ...

When the China-made WWII film, "Evil Unbound" — about Japan's notorious germ warfare group Unit 731 — was released earlier in ...

Conservative members of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party are reportedly worried that the party’s resigned leader and country’s outgoing Prime Minister, Shigeru Ishiba, may come close to issuing ...

Lawmaker Takao Saito denounced Japan's military campaign in China, and was subsequently expelled from the lower chamber of ...

Just days after taking office, Japan's new leader faces a series of back-to-back foreign policy tests, with a meeting with ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi are expected to travel to China for the 80th anniversary of its victory over Japan. On Wednesday, ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba bows to the crowd after giving a speech during the 80th anniversary ceremony of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on ...

Tong Zeng, chairman of Zhongxiang Investment Co, and also known as “China’s first civil advocate demanding wartime compensation from Japan,” passed away in Beijing on October 23 at the age of 69 due ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has welcomed Japan's commitment to accelerate its military buildup and defense spending ...