His televised address as prime minister, delivered 50 years to the day after Japan announced its surrender, set a marker for ...

Berlin, Oct. 17 (Jiji Press)--Authorities in a Berlin district said Friday that they have removed a statue symbolizing ...

Tomiichi Murayama, a former prime minister who issued a landmark statement of “remorse” for Japan’s actions in World War II, ...

Japan’s former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who issued a landmark apology for the country’s wartime aggression in 1995, died on Friday at the age of 101, according to AP. Murayama died at a ...

Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, one of the few Socialists ever to lead Japan and renowned for a landmark 1995 statement expressing remorse and apology for the nation's wartime ...

Sanae Takaichi’s historic ascent to the leadership could have significant repercussions for the country’s relationships with ...

We think of the 1940s as World War II. But a lot more was happening in that decade. In Daviess County, more than 5,000 of us marched away to war and 226 of us didn’t come back. There were 30,245 of us ...

Japanese Americans were imprisoned at the Manzanar Relocation Center, descendants are returning to play the sport that gave ...

Diane Keaton died on October 11, her family confirmed to People. She was 79. A spokesperson for the legendary actress told ...

A new initiative aims to increase the number of connections between the family members of those buried and remembered at a ...

In the Pacific theater of World War II, Japan's military was driven by the Bushido code—a strict samurai ethos emphasizing honor, loyalty, and death before surrender. This code led to extreme acts of ...

During the lesser-known 1943 Sobibor Uprising, several hundred Jews fled into the forests of Poland, where many were tracked ...