A national ceremony will begin at Tokyo’s Budokan hall at noon, the same time then-Emperor Hirohito’s 4½-minute prerecorded ...

Japan and China are marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II with major events on different dates.

Count Folke Bernadotte, the nephew of Sweden's King Gustav V and a colleague of Herman Allen, helped arrange a ceremony for ...

Top collectors on the island have amassed hundreds of thousands of artifacts — and there are still more being found.

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

Tom Sitter, of Madison, has strong Irish roots and will ring in the big birthday on Saturday at the Milwaukee festival.

Cam Pelletier was a 23-year-old serving in the Navy in the South Pacific in August 1945 when President Harry Truman announced that Japan had surrendered ending World War II.

Japan on Friday marked the 80th anniversary of its surrender in World War II, as the aging of survivors and ongoing global ...

DOVER, DE - Delaware flags were lowered to half staff today for the death of World War II veteran James "Tommy" Anderson.

Taiwan has banned officials from attending a military parade planned by Beijing to mark the end of World War II. Read more at ...

Japan marked the 80th anniversary of its World War II defeat on Friday, with at least one cabinet minister joining thousands ...