"This is long overdue," said Donald Thurin, an affiliate to the United Nations (UN), after viewing an exhibition on the World Anti-Fascist War here Monday evening.
China again demanded Japan squarely face its aggressive past and reflect upon it after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife visited the controversial Yasukuni Shrine.
China's upcoming war commemorations are not only a tribute to peace, but also a warning to foreign countries never to repeat the war, a senior official said Thursday.
The Pentagon is criticized for its new war laws manual that likens war-zone journalists to spies and says that under some circumstances, war-zone journalists can be treated as "unprivileged belligerents".
The memorial services in Hiroshima and Nagasaki should serve as an opportunity for Japan not only to commemorate the victims of atomic bombs but also to have a thorough reflection upon its history of militarism.
One year after last summer's Gaza war between Israel and the Hamas movement, peace still remains elusive despite a ceasefire that has largely taken hold along Israel's border with the coastal enclave.
As Hiroshima on Thursday marked the 70th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing and Nagasaki follows on Sunday, Japan, starting from the two cities, is in mourning commemorating the painful sufferings brought by World War II, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to issue a closely-watched statement next week to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the war.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Monday issued a dire warning against "U.S. imperialism" as it commemorated the 62nd anniversary of the Korean Armistice Agreement.
Seventy years ago on July 27, allied warplanes swarmed Japan's skies as the country's militarists fought with desperation on the Oriental and Pacific battlefields.
The U.S. President Barack Obama called the fallen U.S. soldiers "a debt we can never fully repay" during a visit to the Arlington National Cemetery on Monday.
The cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe approved a package of defense bills on Thursday and eyed their approval in the Diet before July.
Seventy years ago today, Nazi Germany signed an unconditional surrender, ending the European conflict in World War II.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to the war criminal-honoring Yasukuni Shrine on Tuesday, with a handful of other political bigwigs also making a similar offering, although aide Seiichi Eto opted to visit the controversial shrine in person.
The upcoming Asian African Summit in Indonesia is aimed at carrying on the spirit of unity, friendship and cooperation with sincere actions, and there is no place for any sort of peace stunt.
2nd LD Writethru: DPRK fires short-range missiles as S.Korea, U.S. kick off war games
U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday echoed his Wednesday's call for Muslim communities around the world to resist the notion that the West was at war with Islam in his final speech at the White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism.
Limping in a crowded street in Kabul as he directed traffic, Azam Shah, a former anti-invasion fighter, could not understand why with the defeat of the Russians and the end of the U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan, there still seems to be no end to the war in his country.
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