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Japan marked 70 years on Saturday since the end of World War Two but faced criticism from South Korea and China, which accused it of failing to properly atone for its actions during the war.

Hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides of the border guard the demilitarized zone that bisects the peninsula, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended in a truce rather than a peace treaty.

“It is true that the prime minister’s statement made (yesterday) left much to be desired”, Park said in a speech marking the 70th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II that ended its 1910-45 colonisation of the Korean Peninsula.

China’s foreign ministry voiced its opposition to Saturday’s visits in a statement which said they demonstrated “Japan’s erroneous attitudes toward the historical issues”.

As part of Saturday’s war memorials, Emperor Akihito, the son of wartime Emperor Hirohito, will deliver a speech with Abe and other cabinet ministers present.

Abe, the grandson of a wartime cabinet minister, himself did not visit the shrine, which honours 14 Japanese leaders convicted as war criminals by an Allied tribunal, along with millions of war dead.

North Korea threatened Saturday to attack its southern neighbor after activists launched helium balloons carrying anti-Pyongang leaflets.

The commentary said descendants of any country in the world must inherit their predecessors’ past attainments along with responsibilities brought by their forebears’ prior crimes. At the last two ceremonies, he also did not pledge that Japan would never go to war....

Veterans and former prisoners of war will be joined later by the Royal Family at events commemorating the 70th anniversary of VJ Day. Veterans and former prisoners of war will also be present, with the Prime Minister and and other dignitaries.

Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe had the opportunity to continue along the same path as his predecessor, Tomiichi Murayama and apologize for Japan’s past aggression, however, those that had waited with bated breath for Abe’s statement on Friday, a day before the...

Queen Elizabeth II led ceremonies in Britain on Saturday marking the 70th anniversary of the victory over Japan during World War II.

India’s rising badminton star PV Sindhu stunned Olympic champion Li Xuerui of China on Thursday to enter the world championship quarter-final in Jakarta.

According to state news agency KCNA, North Korea will set its clock back by 30 minutes to “Pyongyang time” on August 15.

On August 10th, Tokyo announced that Japan was willing to surrender. In recent years, Emperor Akihito has been particularly eager to visit the islands in South Pacific where the Imperial Japanese Army engaged in a fierce battle with the United States. History is harsh. What is...

Around 1 000 protesters had gathered at the mission to push for reparations ahead of Saturday’s 70th anniversary of the end of Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule over the Korean peninsula.