BENXI, China (AP) — 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 June 1944 during World War II, Japanese tanks charged Marine lines on Saipan believing their armor would protect them. The assault was led by the Type 95 Ha-Go light tanks of the 9th Tank Regiment ...

Sept. 2 marks the 80th anniversary of Japan's formal World War II surrender. The capitulation was by design forceful and imposing, an absolutely made for Hollywood event -- as in Hollywood documentary ...

In the aftermath of Japan’s surprise attack at Pearl Harbor, there was plenty of hope that the United States wouldn’t have the strength to respond. However, the US was a sleeping giant, and instead of ...

A 500-pound bomb from World War II dropped by the United States on Japan exploded at a Japanese airport after nearly 80 years. One bomb out of the 179,967 tons of bombs dropped on Japan during World ...

Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi warned that the country is facing its “most severe and complex security environment” since World War II, pointing to China’s expanding military activities ...

The Imperial Japanese Navy launched hundreds of fighters and bombers at Pearl Harbor in an effort to paralyze the main U.S. naval base for the Pacific Fleet near Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.

An American bomb dropped on Japan during World War II recently exploded after lying dormant for roughly 80 years. The 500-pound bomb detonated on Wednesday at Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, pictured here in 2015, was the architect of a landmark Japanese apology for World War II crimes - Copyright AFP ...