Japan needs to revisit the pacifist posture that has defined it since World War Two, Shinjiro Koizumi says.

Visitors dressed up line up to offer prayers at the Yasukuni Shrine on the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, in Tokyo, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte) TOKYO (AP) ...

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Faced with growing concerns over Russia, China and uncertainty about America's long-term security commitments, Germany and Japan are rapidly expanding their defence capabilities and strengthening ties ...

Demonstrators shouted slogans throughout the prime minister’s speech at a World War II memorial event in Okinawa.

Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...

The recent 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II inspired multiple publications on how Japan remembers its wartime history. However, there has been less said about the ...

This year marks 80 years since Japan’s catastrophic defeat in the Asia-Pacific War. In 1945, the country lay in ruins. Millions had died in battle or in the devastating Allied bombings of Tokyo, ...

Japan occupied much of China before and during WWII in a devastating and brutal invasion that, by some estimates, killed 20 million people. The wartime experience still bedevils relations between the ...

Before Japan went to war with the United States, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto gave one of the most famous warnings in modern military history. Asked about Japan’s prospects in a war against America and ...

Born from the trauma of World War II, this bow-wearing cartoon icon became a powerful tool for diplomacy, reinvention, and cultural soft power. Dressed in a kimono, Hello Kitty performs a classical ...