A groundbreaking new eight-part series traces the epic struggle of the Pacific War using rare and never-before-seen color visuals from every corner of the conflict. Smithsonian Channel takes ...

Follow the travels of war correspondent William Courtenay and his reporting on the Pacific campaign. Then witness his remarkable archival recordings, from multiple island attacks to the aftermath of ...

World War II in Color Thousands of photographs in government archives bring the war to life.

TOKYO -- Noboru Shimura, 80, sat at a shaded table on the vast grounds of the Shinto shrine honoring Japan's war dead, waiting for the others in his World War II regiment to straggle in. In his ...

A reporter traveled to the corners of the country to meet six World War II veterans, who had a warning for generations to come.

August 15th marks the 80th anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender and the end of World War II, putting focus once again on reckoning with the country's past. The domestic debate in Japan ...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida reaffirmed the country's commitment to peace at the ceremony marking the 78th anniversary of the end of World War II.

The postwar generation may now be the majority in Japan, but they too must know the atrocities of war, says Lester Tenney in The Wall Street Journal.

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