As the Asia-Pacific region prepares to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, Japanese conservatives are warning of a “history war” in 2025. They argue that films and television ...

World War II ended 75 years ago, but not all countries commemorate it on the same day. Wednesday is the anniversary of the formal Sept. 2, 1945, surrender of Japan to the United States ...

Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world's oldest ... managed the office of her husband's textile factory during World War II. She lived alone in Nara after her husband died in 1979.She ...

TOKYO (AP) — Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world ... Itooka managed the office of her husband’s textile factory during World War II. She lived alone in Nara after her husband ...

Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest ... Itooka managed the office of her husband’s textile factory during World War II. She lived alone in Nara after her husband died ...

4, 1951. Following its defeat in World War II, Japan emerged from Allied occupation in 1952 with the enactment of the San Francisco Peace Treaty. At the same time, it entered into a security ...

Across China’s west, the Communist Party is placing children in boarding schools to assimilate a generation of Tibetans into the national mainstream and mold them into loyal citizens. By Chris ...

Okinawa on Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of its return to Japan on May 15, 1972, which ended 27 years of U.S. rule after one of the bloodiest battles of World War II was fought on the southern ...