The napalm bombing of Japanese cities remains far less notorious than the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, even ...

Historian Richard Overy explains how the US firebombing of Japanese cities in 1945 killed more civilians than Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined – and why it has been largely forgotten ...

Japan and China mark WWII's end on different dates, highlighting unresolved history and growing military and political ...

With a “secret” weapon preparing to gamble and end the war in the Pacific, only a select number of scientists, military leaders, political leaders and President Harry S. Truman felt they saw the end.

The nuclear bombing of Japan in 1945 is widely credited with hastening the end of the Second World War. Even if true, was it ...

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the first use of a nuclear weapon, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima near the end ...

BENXI, China (AP) — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events ...

Japan on Friday is marking the surrender announcement by then-Emperor Hirohito 80 years ago at the end of World War II ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday pledged that Japan will never again take the path to war, expressing ...