To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, we asked historians to share their favorite museums around the world.

Bones, likely to be human, have been recovered at a wartime undersea mine in western Japan where about 180 mostly Korean forced laborers died in an accident in 1942, according to a Japanese civil grou ...

In just 30 seconds, we trace the rise and fall of the Japanese Empire — from its rapid modernization in the late 19th century, through expansion across Asia and the Pacific, to its ultimate defeat in ...