With the rape and devastation of Asia by Imperial Japanese military forces a raw memory, that liberal democratic constitution, drafted by the U.S. and allied victors and imposed in 1947, placed severe ...

KURE, Japan — A recent gathering in this city on Japan’s Inland Sea kept alive the memory of an American torpedo bomber shot down in the closing days of World War II and the lives lost as a result.

Japan wrote pacifism into its constitution and culture following World War II, but that era may be coming to an end. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi last week moved to allow arms sales to foreign ...

Pascal Lottaz (Lottaz), a Swiss scholar and an associate professor at Kyoto University's Graduate School of Law and Hakubi ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan is paying tribute to more than 3 million war dead as the country marks its surrender 80 years ago, ending the World War II, as concern grows about the rapidly fading memories of the ...

It's a reflection of just how fresh the political debate about Japan's role in World War II remains here, even 80 years after its end. TOKYO (AP) — Senior U.S. and Japanese officials tend to shy away ...