SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Japan considers the “rising sun” flag part of its history. But some in the Koreas, China and other Asian countries say the flag is a reminder of Japan’s wartime atrocities, ...

TOKYO — Toshihiro Mutsuda was only 5 years old when he last saw his father, who was drafted by Japan’s Imperial Army in 1943 and killed in action. For him, his father was a bespectacled man in an old ...

The Japanese imperial family's coming-of-age ceremony will be held on September 6, marking the first time in 40 years. On ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Japan needed to make the cost of surrender less than the cost of total war for America. Let’s face it. Imperial Japan stood next to no chance of winning a fight to ...

TOKYO (AP) — Toshihiro Mutsuda was only 5 years old when he last saw his father, who was drafted by Japan’s Imperial Army in 1943 and killed in action. For him, his father was a bespectacled man in an ...