Conservative members of the prime minister's ruling Liberal Democratic Party oppose releasing such a statement.

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

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 ...

But critics have said that Japan was already on the brink of surrender. Following the end of the fighting in Europe on 7 May 1945, the Allies told Japan to surrender by 28 July, but the deadline ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

Also, because of your leaders' refusal to accept the surrender declaration that would enable Japan to honorably end this useless war, we have employed our atomic bomb. A single one of our newly ...

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 ...

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 ...

The capture of Manila didn't end the fighting, which continued in the hinterlands of Luzon until the surrender of Japan on August 15, 1945. Casualties on both sides were staggering. About 230,000 ...