Japan is paying tribute tribute to more than 3 million war dead as the country marks its surrender 80 years ago, ending World ...

Tens of thousands of people braved blazing heat to pay their respects at a controversial Japanese shrine Friday, as Emperor ...

The defeat of Japan in August 1945 has become a footnote to Allied victory in Europe. But the world we inhabit today was ...

Ghanaian veteran Joseph Hammond raised hundreds of thousands of pounds during Covid-19 in a series of charity walks.

Each year that August 15 rolls around, William ‘Bill’ Jones casts his mind back to VJ Day. It was when, 80 years ago, that ...

VJ Day war veterans were today being honoured at a memorial event attended by the King at The National Memorial Arboretum in ...

On the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, President William Lai (賴清德) today called for unity against rising ...

After six long and bloody years of conflict, the Second World War finally ended 80 years ago today (Friday, August 15).

"People would not believe what it was like. I was only 20, and you were dodging bullets all the time. Everyone was frightened ...

Genshitsu Sen, a former Kamikaze pilot trainee who later promoted peace as a grand master of the Japanese tea ceremony, has died, officials said Thursday. He was 102. Sen had been hospitalized since ...

A Shropshire MP is urging his constituencies to respect a two-minute silence on VJ Day. Friday marks the 80th anniversary of ...

There were 1,800 prisoners aboard Lisbon Maru when it sank in the South China Sea on 2 October 1942, including Sgt Cyril Mace ...