In the wake of 9/11, some called for rounding up whole groups of people viewed as potential threats to the nation. But ...

FUKUOKA, Japan — Descendants of U.S. airmen captured and executed in Japan during World War II and the descendants of the Japanese imperial officers who carried out those executions met face to face ...

Japan's war atrocities in WWII match or exceed those of the Nazis in Europe. However, they never had to deal with a true public accounting of these atrocities beyond token payments and statements.

An excavation in Taiwan searches for remains of Japanese soldiers lost in WWII ship sinking - Experts have begun an excavation in Taiwan to recover the remains of Japanese soldiers from World War II ...

During the Pacific War, many Japanese soldiers were shaped by the influence of the Bushido code, a military culture built around loyalty, honor, and the belief that surrender was worse than death.

Lee Yong-soo was 16 years old, poor and living with her family in Korea when she was forced into sex slavery in 1944. Through the end of the war, she endured beatings, venereal disease and four or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tatsuaki Inoue, a member of the Japan Association for Recovery and Repatriation of War Casualties, leads volunteers to pay ...