In June, the Japan Olympic Committee selected Seiko Hashimoto, 60, as its new president. Hashimoto is a member of the House ...

President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin met for about 2 1/2 half hours on Friday, a summit in Alaska that started ...

Mitsuaki Yoshino has few memories of his father, Kumazo, who died in Indonesia during World War II. He considers three ...

Major trading house Mitsubishi Corp. on Thursday announced it will invest about $600 million (about ¥88 billion) to acquire a ...

A body was found on Friday on a mountain on the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaido, where a man had been missing since being ...

More than 40%, or 20, of the 47 prefectural chapters of a national organization of families of war dead have suspended or ...

The Emperor announced the end of World War II on Aug. 15, 1945, and shortly afterward Masao Ohki, a 21-year-old senior flight ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba expressed “remorse” over World War II in his address at the annual government-organized ...

The annual memorial ceremony for Japan’s war dead was held at the Nippon Budokan hall in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on Friday, as ...

Many families of those who died in World War II and other people visited the Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery in Chiyoda Ward ...

Japan’s Nikkei closed at an all-time high on Friday, as the yen weakened and data showed the nation’s economy was ...

Editorial [posttime] JST, [postdate] Friday marked the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. The national memorial service for the war dead is set to be held in Tokyo. It is hoped that ...