After suffering more than 220,000 casualties, the Empire of Japan announced its surrender, leading to the end of World War II. The US forces quickly moved in to launch Operation Blacklist ...

2, 1945, to officially end World War II. China and Russia commemorate ... Hiroshima and Nagasaki were thrust into Japan’s public consciousness only after the country regained independence ...

This historic video captures WWII hero General MacArthur and the Allied Council for Japan proposing steps towards rebuilding ...

The shocking photos show the prisoners of war reduced to skin and bone after being starved and brutally ... most heinous crimes committed during World War II following unconfirmed reports about ...

As World War II neared its end, Japan found itself with much of its naval ... the Ohka wasn't particularly successful. After its 1945 introduction, kamikaze attacks using the Ohka sank only ...

Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan reopened Thursday morning, just a day after a buried World War II bomb exploded near ...

A long-buried World War Two bomb exploded in early October at Japan's Miyazaki Airport. Nearly 80 years after the war ended, bombs that didn't detonate still turn up nationwide. Two more were ...

It also thrust an ambivalent nation into World War II. Stories abound of young men joining up after Pearl Harbor ... Roosevelt's declaration of war on Japan on December 8 may have braced many ...