Because of the atomic bombings and Japan's surrender a month later, the firebombing of Tokyo is often overlooked in history.

Japan is remembering the 105,000 people killed in a single night, 80 years ago Monday, in the U.S. firebombing of the ...

Tokyo on Monday marked the 80th anniversary of a night of U.S. air raids during World War II that killed around 100,000 ...

On her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned ...

Which came to bear partially because of what happened to the Japanese civilian population in WW2, especially in Tokyo ... Japan attacked a US military base. The US targeted Japanese civilians ...

who survived the raid as she had left Tokyo a few hours before. "We should never repeat the war," said Sato, who also lost her siblings in World War II. An 88-year-old woman who lost her father ...

Every August, Japanese media outlets offer specials on World War II and accounts of survivors’ wartime experiences. These features center around Aug. 15, the date when Emperor Hirohito announced ...

Takamatsu Gushiken hunts caves in Okinawa’s jungles for the bones of those who died in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, one of the ...

Mina Watanabe has made it her life’s work to tell the stories of the women who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese ...