TOKYO — Friday is the 80th anniversary of then-Emperor Hirohito's announcement of Japan's World War II surrender, but as living witnesses die and memories fade, questions remain in Japan about how the ...

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Arguments about history are proliferating as the postwar order led by the United States crumbles. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. In September, China held a military parade to ...

BENXI, China (AP) — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on different dates and in different ways. What to know about the ...

Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...

Even after the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was not universally expected that Japan would capitulate. Arguably, one of the most famous photos in history was taken 80 years ...

Day, is commemorated as the day on which Japan surrendered in World War II. The Pacific Ocean theater of World War II saw ...

Eighty years later, the scars of the last American firebombing of a Japanese city remain — on the skin of a man who still lives mere yards from where hundreds died, on the surface of a statue of a ...

This film explores how air superiority in World War II shifted in the Pacific, from the early dominance of the Mitsubishi ...

Eighty years ago, a Dawson, Minnesota, man was aboard the USS Missouri when Japan surrendered and signed a peace treaty, essentially marking the end of World War II. "I tell you, I joined the Navy ...

Soon after the invention and mass adoption of airplanes, governments started used them for war. Suddenly, soldiers had to watch out for flying machines spraying hot lead and dropping bombs. However, ...

BENXI, China — Eighty years after the end of World War II, Japan and China are marking the anniversary with major events, but on different dates and in different ways. Japan remembers the victims in a ...