Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...

This video follows China’s brutal War of Resistance against Japan, from the fall of Shanghai and Nanjing and Chiang Kai-shek’s disastrous decisions, through refugee crises, famine, and mass atrocities ...

Right wing groups in Japan continue to push historical denialism in a bid to whitewash wartime atrocities. South Korea, which suffered under Japanese occupation, wants Japan to be more open about the ...

The Japanese began to bomb American bases in the Philippines hours after the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor that launched the United States into World War II. By the spring of 1942, Japanese ...

Explore how Guam and its residents dealt with the Japanese occupation of their island in WWII. Explore how the American territory of Guam and its residents dealt with the horrific Japanese occupation ...

THE Japanese occupation lasted from 1942 to 1945 — a stark reminder of what happens when our country falls under a foreign ...

From left: Japanese Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Abe Toshiko, Japanese Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and Chinese Minister of ...

Gil Won-ok, who was among tens of thousands of Korean women forced into brothels for Japanese soldiers during World War II, and who became — after decades of silence — a leading voice for greater ...

In the smoldering wake of World War II, few places bore the scars of conflict like Japan. Cities lay in ruins, infrastructure crumbled, and entire populations were left homeless. Into this devastation ...

BENXI, China — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on different dates and in different ways. Japan remembers the victims in a ...

When most people think of the Pacific Theater of World War II, they envision tropical islands, heat, and jungle combat. However, the 18-day campaign in May 1943 to retake a remote Aleutian island from ...