Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A set of remote islands called Dokdo in Korean and Takeshima in Japanese is seen in this picture taken from a helicopter carrying ...

Japan and its neighbors exchanged sharp words Tuesday after Tokyo made public school textbooks hew closer to its stance on history and toughened an annual foreign-policy report. As the WSJ's Yuka ...

Eighty years ago, the Japanese Emperor read the Imperial Rescript of the Termination of the War, announcing Japan's unconditional surrender to the allied forces in the World Anti-Fascist War. Yet 80 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. South Korea filed a complaint against Japan on Tuesday for approving history textbooks that officials say “distort historical ...

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SEOUL (CBS.MW) -- Amid mounting anger here over Japan's refusal to make changes to history textbooks that allegedly whitewash Tokyo's wartime record, the South Korean government is taking its ...