Friday is the 80th anniversary of then-Emperor Hirohito’s announcement of Japan’s World War II surrender, but as living ...
On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese empire capitulated after the United States threw atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was the last country of the Axis powers that continued its war, and ...
SAITAMA—Japan continued to operate its rail network even after Emperor Hirohito for the first time addressed his subjects ...
A Japanese soldier refused to believe WWII was over and hid in the jungle for nearly three decades. Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese Imperial Army intelligence officer who spent 29 years hiding ...