The kamikaze suicide plane was a last-ditch effort to stave off defeat by a desperate Japan. But its fatal flaw doomed its ...

Ahead of the ceremony Sunday, The Associated Press explains the Sado mines, their history and ... and forced to work in Japan, especially in the final years of World War II. Korean compensation ...

As Asia-Pacific prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, conservatives in Japan warn that the nation faces a “history war” in 2025 as regional rivals release films and ...

The history of the world was forever ... the Empire of Japan announced its surrender, leading to the end of World War II. The US forces quickly moved in to launch Operation Blacklist, a mission ...

Had Britain's wartime leader truly stood alone in his opposition to appeasement, or did he rewrite history to portray himself in a better light? By Professor John Charmley. The rows were explosive ...

The Battle of Okinawa in 1945 was one of the bloodiest of World War II. More than 200,000 people were killed during the three months of fighting, more than half of them civilians. Okinawans were ...

documentWW2: Countdown to Hiroshima: The bomb that changed the world A timeline of the events in the days and hours before the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. WW2: How close did D ...

The Legacy of WWII Japanese American Incarceration.” The camp, located in Jerome County about 7 miles north of Eden, is known as the “Minidoka Internment Camp” or the “Minidoka Relocation ...

But Takumi Sato, professor of media history at Sophia University ... day as the Day of Victory over Militaristic Japan and the end of World War II, an apparent move designed to keep Japan in ...

The notes were dictated by the emperor and written down by an aide A memoir by former Japanese Emperor Hirohito ... made at the request of the US after WW2. The original manuscript was sold ...