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 ...

A bereaved family prays for war victims on Monday at Japan's Peace Memorial Park in Itoman, Okinawa-Prefecture. Photo by Keizo Mori/UPI June 23 (UPI) --More than 4,000 people on Monday filled an ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan paid tribute Friday to more than 3 million war dead as the country marked its surrender that ended World War II 80 years ago, as concern grows about the rapidly fading memories of ...

TOKYO — As Japan's defeat marking the end of WWII nears its 80th anniversary, and some events fade from living memory, history is hardly consigned to books. It lives on in unhealed wounds, ...

FUKUOKA, Japan — Nearly 80 years after they were captured and killed in the final days of World War II, dozens of U.S. airmen were honored Friday with a solemn ceremony that also reckoned with the ...

TOKYO (AP) — Friday is the 80th anniversary of then-Emperor Hirohito’s announcement of Japan’s World War II surrender, but as living witnesses die and memories fade, questions remain in Japan about ...

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. Today in History: September ...