As historian Lloyd E. Eastman wrote, China resisted a better-trained and better-equipped army for eight full years. France ...

While most accounts put the start of World War 2 on September 1, 1939, many historians claim the conflict actually began on ...

The recent 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II inspired multiple publications on how Japan remembers its wartime history. However, there has been less said about the ...

Japan’s invasion of China in World War II began with the expansion of conflict after years of tension. Following the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937, Japanese forces launched a full-scale war, ...

BENXI, China (AP) — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on different dates and in different ways. Japan remembers the victims ...

This article appeared in History of War magazine issue 151. On 2 September 1945, Japanese forces officially surrendered to the Republic of China, ending the brutal occupation which began in 1937.

For a movie about a particularly dark chapter of China's history, 731 has been doing exceptional business. The film, released on Thursday, focuses on Japan's Unit 731, which conducted biological ...

BENXI, China (AP) — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on different dates and in different ways. Today in History: November ...