In the end days of World War II, Okuzaki served in the emperor’s army, stationed on an island in New Guinea. He was one of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... December 7, 1941. It was “a date that will live in infamy,” said President ...

Explore the most notorious weapons of WWII and discover how they worked, from buzzsaw machine guns and game-changing bombs to ...

Ragging at Sabaragamuwa university has resulted in the loss of another student’s life and there is another incident of ...

The Telegraph looks back at its ancestor papers' coverage of the World War II surrender of Germany on the 80th anniversary of the first V-E Day on May 8, 1945.

Japan’s Emperor Emeritus Akihito will be admitted ... Akihito, who ascended to the throne after his father, Hirohito, died in 1989, became the first Japanese monarch in 200 years to abdicate ...

Celebrations will continue throughout the week: A party will be held aboard HMS Belfast, a WWII-era warship moored on the River Thames. Queen Camilla will visit a powerful art installation ...

The war between the US and Japan had started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. The ...

Among those in attendance was 99-year-old World War II veteran Harry Humason, who served in Gen. George Patton’s 3rd Army, 5th Division, 2nd Infantry Regiment, according to festival spokeswoman ...

Everybody understood that a new and frightening age had begun. Japan’s surrender was announced by Emperor Hirohito on August 15, 1945 – now VJ Day in the UK – and formally signed on ...

Tusk spoke at a Dutch Liberation Day ceremony where WWII veterans were given a standing ovation by crowds who lined streets to watch a military parade as modern and wartime aircraft flew overhead.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Emperor Emeritus Akihito will undergo heart tests at a hospital after an unspecified problem was detected during a routine checkup, Japanese media reports said Monday.