A national ceremony will begin at Tokyo’s Budokan hall at noon, the same time then-Emperor Hirohito’s 4½-minute prerecorded ...

Mr Hilling, who joined the RAF in April 1944 before being transferred to the Army and serving in India in 1945 before his ...

COMMENTARY: On the 80th anniversary of the Allies’ victory over Japan in World War II, it is essential that we look at our ...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Sussan Ley will travel to Sydney to commemorate the 80th anniversary of ...

Also in today’s newsletter, US Treasury secretary says Japan ‘behind the curve’ on inflation, and Warren Buffett’s Berkshire ...

The population of Disneyland's It's a Small World ride unexpectedly increased in early August when activists left an ...

Japan on Friday is marking the surrender announcement by then-Emperor Hirohito 80 years ago at the end of World War II ...

This year, the sanitized appeals to peace, hope, and resilience in memory of the catastrophe have become increasingly hollow.

This week in Japan is Obon, the millennia-old festival based on the traditional belief that the spirits of the ancestors ...

Eighty years ago last week our country did something that had never been done before or since. They exploded an “atom bomb” ...