World War II ended 75 years ago, but not all countries commemorate it on the same day. Wednesday is the anniversary of the formal Sept. 2, 1945, surrender of Japan to the United States ...

Sent by the United States to “coerce the government of Japan into civilization,” as ... retrace Perry’s route home. By the ...

Eighty years after US air raids devastated Japanese cities, the nation reflects on its wartime suffering but with an ...

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A 92-year-old Japanese survivor of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki described the horrors he witnessed in 1945 as he ...

Japanese representatives signed the instrument of surrender aboard the USS Missouri off Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945, to officially end World War II. China and Russia commemorate Sept. 3 as the ...

Survivors of the US atomic bombings of Japan will receive the Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday but, after years of anti-nuclear ...

The bomb was dropped to force a quick Japanese surrender. American commanders said ... surprising things key people thought at the time. WW2: Countdown to Hiroshima: The bomb that changed the ...

VJ Day celebrations 75 years ago A WW2 hero and a reckoning with ... Following the end of the fighting in Europe, the Allies told Japan to surrender on 26 July 1945, but the deadline passed ...

A group of Japanese survivors of the World War II atomic bombings on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945, is set to be awarded the ...

Survivors of the US atomic bombings of Japan will receive the Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday but, after years of anti-nuclear ...