TOKYO — On Tuesday, the 61st anniversary of Japan’s World War II defeat, Imperial Army veteran Waichi Okumura frowned when he heard of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s visit to Yasukuni ...

Japanese filmmakers interviewed Long Island veteran Robert Strugats for his perspective on the 1945 air assault on Japan.

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Journalist and filmmaker Yayoi Lena Winfrey is looking for more Japanese “war brides” to interview as she completes the filming for her feature-length documentary film, “War Brides of Japan ...

Sept. 2 marks the 80th anniversary of Japan's formal World War II surrender. The capitulation was by design forceful and ...

The United States celebrated the end of World War II with Victory in Japan Day on Aug. 14, 1945, exactly 75 years before the release of “Apocalypse ’45,” Erik Nelson’s examination of the ...

A new documentary is looking to shine a light on Japanese-Americans who were placed in internment camps by the U.S. government during World War II.

Every August 15 — the memorial day marking the end of World War II in Japanese terms, or Japan’s surrender in the War of Aggression Against China in Chinese terms — is a sensitive day for ...

A new film dramatises the rescue during WW2 of hundreds of British POWs from the Lisbon Maru, a Japanese cargo liner. The ...

Eighty years after Japan was defeated, a wave of Chinese films about the occupation are fuelling memory and anger.