As Japan marks 75 years since the end of World War Two, one chapter of the conflict remains largely unknown inside the country. During the war, over 1,000 citizens of Allied nations living in ...

Since 1978 those honored have included 14 World War II leaders convicted ... s grounds has been criticized as depicting the war as one fought by Japan to liberate Asia from Western imperialism ...

Japan invaded the most westerly of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and took 41 residents as prisoners of war. Twenty-two of them ...

One is Aug. 15, to pay tribute to the war ... 3 World War II victory day as the Day of Victory over Militaristic Japan and the end of World War II, an apparent move designed to keep Japan in ...

Hideko Ito, a former member of Japan's lower house of parliament and ... the infamous Japanese germ-warfare detachment during World War II, shared her father's enduring message: "Never go to ...