Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on different ...

Tsukiko Ito, 84, was 4 years old when Akita's Tsuchizaki district was battered by around 130 bombers from the United States ...

A program that allows families of Japanese nationals who died in overseas battlefields during World War II to visit memorial ...

There is a classical piece that 98-year-old pianist Reiko Kinashi has played since before World War II — Schumann’s ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Monday he wants to convey a message that underscores the need for Japan to remember the ...

In August 1945, 80 years ago, an anonymous sailor kissed an anonymous nurse. It became one of the iconic images of World War II. But should it be?

NHK has learned that about 20 percent of facilities and sites in Japan that serve as legacies of World War Two have been lost ...

Eighty years after the Battle of Okinawa, thousands of victims remain unaccounted for. One man continues to search for the ...

Day, Jack Leroy Tueller, one of those Americans, was taking sniper fire with the rest of his unit. Instead of sitting ...

Tommy Anderson of Dover, who helped the Allies win World War II as a soldier in the "ghost army," died Aug. 1 at age 102.

Top collectors on the island have amassed hundreds of thousands of artifacts — and there are still more being found.

The USS Silversides submarine sank 23 ships during World War II. It was also the site of a successful emergency appendectomy ...