“Japan will never be another Germany.” Another poll, conducted by Pew Research Center in 2015, found that neither Japan nor Germany viewed World War II as the most important factor in their ...

The Saturday Essay; Japan and Germany Are Again Preparing for War Memories of World War II still cause anxiety in both countries, but a rising generation feels less constrained—and less sure of ...

'We Japanese, across generations, must squarely face the history of the past," Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in his speech last month marking the 70-year anniversary of Japan's surrender in World ...

Gary Bass’s new book asks why the tribunal in Tokyo after World War II was so ineffective. ... Unlike Germany, Japan had not ratified the 1929 Geneva Conventions, which prohibited such practices.

Germany and Japan are rearming. The defeated World War II aggressors have lost their timidity. Japan will soon deploy cruise missiles that can hit nearby countries.

And when World War II was looming, Japan gave up its chance to host the 1940 Games. Those Games were eventually scrapped altogether when Hitler invaded Poland. And then there was 1948.

Germany, Italy, and Japan had big plans for aircraft carriers to turn the tide of WWII, but they never made it into battle Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu under attack by US B-17E bombers during ...