Every August, Japanese media outlets offer specials on World War II and accounts of survivors’ wartime experiences. These features center around Aug. 15, the date when Emperor Hirohito announced ...

No war – won or lost – is ever waged without sacrifice. Those sacrifices can be material in the loss of equipment or infrastructure, monetary in the cost to a nation’s economy of waging a war but ...

With rising political tensions, let's explore what might happen if Japan is attacked in war. How would the international community react? Japan has not engaged in war since World War II, maintaining a ...

Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward has reproduced a rare map from 1947 that shows how the ... what their neighborhood was like two years after World War II ended. Republished to mark the 75th anniversary ...

The Latest Historic images from 80 years ago show the unprecedented scale of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France, changing the course of World War II ... ago in the Japanese bombing ...

As World War II neared its end, Japan found itself with much of its naval forces destroyed as the Americans reconquered Japan's newly acquired islands. One way the Japanese decided to counter the ...

Soviet Union, CIRCA 1941-1943 world war 2 stock videos & royalty-free footage Stock video clip footage of a group of World War one / two army soldiers marching in a parade - Tripod Zoom in to the map ...

West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during World War II.

Six years after it started, World War II ended in 1945 ... drops atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings kill an estimated 214,000 people and force Japan to ...

Titled "The Struggle Against Terrorism," the 1,000-square-foot artwork suffered from neglect for 90 years. Now, conservators have unveiled the newly restored mural in Mexico Eli Wizevich A German ...

It was reorganized in 1942 under the Bank of Japan Act of 1942, which reflected the wartime context. The Act of 1942 was amended several times after World War II, and the establishment of the ...