The German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called this moment a “historic turning point.” In Japan, a famous comedian named Tamori coined the (somewhat obscure) phrase “new prewar,” and it has been widely ...

In December 1970, on a visit to Warsaw, Willie Brandt, chancellor of West Germany, came to the site of the Warsaw Ghetto. Brandt sank to his knees and bowed his head. At the time, the gesture was ...

In World War II, Germany’s main allies formed the core of the Axis Powers—Italy and Japan—bound together by the Tripartite Pact of 1940. Italy joined with ambitions in the Mediterranean and North ...

Why, as both Axis powers and defeated nations in World War II, has Germany been able to thoroughly reflect on its war guilt while Japan has consistently failed to do so? In June 2025, a book by a ...

BEIJING, May 10 (Reuters) - German contrition over World War Two stands in contrast to Japan's failure to reflect on its past, the official newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party said on Sunday, ...

The Axis Powers of World War II were led by Germany, with Japan as a close ally. What few are aware of, however, is that right before that war broke out, the Germans were actually engaging in vicious ...

Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...