NORFOLK, Va. — A new exhibit on the U.S. occupation of Japan after World War II opens Aug. 23 at the MacArthur Memorial, paired with a special lecture series on the war’s final weeks in the Pacific.

In recent years, however, a series of policy shifts by Japan has begun to systematically erode this framework. The series, "Japan's Triple Betrayal as a Defeated Country," seeks to uncover the ...

The country’s postwar history was a remarkable story of national rebirth. Now the assumptions that underpinned the last 80 years of policy are being stressed to the limit. Japanese Prime Minister ...

Dark chapter’s telling complicated by Tokyo’s official denials, Washington’s immunity deals and Beijing’s shifting diplomatic ...

TOKYO — As Japan's defeat marking the end of WWII nears its 80th anniversary, and some events fade from living memory, history is hardly consigned to books. It lives on in unhealed wounds, ...

Members of the ruling LDP fear Ishiba's planned UN speech will offer a more sweeping WWII apology than any previous Japanese leader Outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba plans to deliver a ...

With this year marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, there were many events, media features and other efforts in Japan revisiting t･･･ ...