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 ...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday compared the post-war treatments of history by Japan and Europe. He noted that Germany has carried out a comprehensive liquidation of fascism and enacted ...

The statue, which commemorates the “comfort women” of World War II, has embroiled the local government in a minor diplomatic controversy. The Friedensstatue, or Statue of Peace in Berlin, Germany, ...