Museums house many fascinating artifacts—from fossilized dinosaur feces and whale earwax plugs to a tent used by George ...

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

Japan, allies to Germany ... Emperor Hirohito surrenders and the most destructive war in history comes to an end. WW2: How was D-Day, the biggest ever seaborne invasion, launched?

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

A company in Japan found thousands of “phantom” coins, believed to have been destroyed after World War II, in a warehouse. Photos show the rare ceramic currency. Shofu Inc., a dental equipment ...

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 ...