The focus of remembrance was especially sharp in Hiroshima, where the city marked 80 years since the U.S. atomic bombing on ...

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 ...

TOKYO — The Japanese government is appealing to countries in Asia and Europe to skip ceremonies in China next month commemorating the end of World War II, local media reported Sunday. “Japan conveyed ...

It was a last-minute trip — 80 years in the making. Three Japanese Shinto priests visited the Long Island Museum of American Armor Tuesday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War ...

A 100-year-old Second World War veteran from Cheshire who witnessed the official ceremony marking Japan's surrender has spoken of his memories 80 years on from the end of the conflict. Reg Draper was ...