Explore the intense battle that unfolded during World War II as the Japanese launched a decisive torpedo strike against the USS Yorktown at Midway. Witness this pivotal moment in history and discover ...

TOKYO — An unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 flights but no ...

An unexploded bomb dropped during World War II and subsequently buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday morning. This damaged a runway and canceled more than 80 flights, but no one was injured ...

During World War II, Japan was exceptionally innovative in aviation. The nation produced the infamous Mitsubishi A6M "Zero," which devastated the Allies in the early phases of the conflict, and other ...

BENXI, China — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on different dates and in different ways. Japan remembers the victims in a ...

TOKYO — Friday is the 80th anniversary of then-Emperor Hirohito's announcement of Japan's World War II surrender, but as living witnesses die and memories fade, questions remain in Japan about how the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba bows to the crowd after giving a speech during the 80th anniversary ceremony of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on ...

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, ...

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 ...

BENXI, China (AP) — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on different dates and in different ways. Nobel economics prize goes ...