Wednesday is the anniversary of the formal Sept. 2, 1945, surrender of Japan to the United States, when documents were signed officially ending years of bloody fighting in a ceremony aboard the ...

With the Japanese surrender at hand, the world’s attention centered on the admiral’s flagship, the USS Missouri, chosen as ...

It is 75 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August, leading ...

U.S. air raids continued against Japan until the day of its surrender in the Pacific War because Tokyo was reluctant to accept the Potsdam Declaration over the emperor’s status, according to ...

It is 26 July, 1945. For four years, America has been at war with Japan. President Truman issues the enemy an ultimatum: surrender unconditionally or face “prompt and utter destruction.” ...

September 2, 1945: Diaoyu (Senkaku) Islands, as part of Ryukyu Islands, come under the US goverment's control after the surrender of Japan at the end of the second world war.

On 15 August it will be 75 years since Victory over Japan (VJ) Day in 1945, which marked the end of World War Two. After the surrender of Japan on 14 August 1945, two days of national holiday were ...

TASS/. A nationwide commemoration of the 78th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II will be held at the Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo. Emperor Naruhito of Japan and Prime Minister Fumio ...

For 2,000 years Japan had never been defeated. There was no word for "surrender" in the Japanese dictionary. And although the Japanese government never believed it could defeat the United States ...

Trump’s former White House strategist fires latest volley in MAGA civil war as he compares tech titans to Imperial Japan’s ...