The legal world of 1945: a rulebook written by the victors.

Japan's war atrocities in WWII match or exceed those of the Nazis in Europe. However, they never had to deal with a true public accounting of these atrocities beyond token payments and statements.

The formal end of Japan's war took place on September 2, 1945, during a historic signing ceremony aboard the USS Missouri in ...

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi on Saturday prayed at Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine, seen by Japan’s Asian neighbors as a symbol of the country’s past militarism.

Amid the upheaval of the Meiji Restoration, which began in 1868, the Yasukuni Shrine was initially built by the order of Emperor Meiji to honor those who died in the civil war that paved the way for ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday he wants to send a message to the world during his visit to Pearl Harbor that Japan will never repeat the atrocities of past wars. "The ...

Japan's wartime aggression in Asia must never be sanitised, forgotten or rewritten. Yet that is increasingly what sections of Japan's political establishment are attempting to do. Historical ...

SINGAPORE – Whenever a question was asked about Japanese leaders visiting or making offerings to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, China’s Foreign Ministry would refer to it by its name, describe it as a ...

I had to read up on that. I don't quite agree, or at least I don't see it. The problem is this was was set up as a moral question and in a moral context. It's one thing for a smoker to tell other ...