Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, 1.2 million Japanese war dead are still unaccounted for. That's about half of the 2.4 million Japanese, mostly soldiers, who died during Japan's ...

Takamatsu Gushiken hunts caves in Okinawa's jungles for the bones of those who died in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, one of the ...

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 ...

Japan will mark the 80th anniversary of its surrender in World War II on August 15 ... The war ended in August 1945 after the United States dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan.

TOKYO: Japan’s Emperor Naruhito renewed his wish for world peace on his birthday, marking the 80th anniversary ...

With 2025 marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, issues of historical perception ... since it takes a critical view of Japan’s modern history in general, clearly acknowledges ...

In the aftermath of Japan ... After the war, it operated off China and Korea before decommissioning in 1946. The USS O’Bannon (DD-450), a destroyer, played a vital role in World War II as ...

For many years it was the propaganda of the Victors full of hate speech directed towards the losers i.e., Axis powers, Germany and Japan, and demonizing one of them i.e.Japanese, as cannibals and ...

TOKYO: Japan's Emperor Naruhito renewed his wish for world peace on his birthday, marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, the Imperial Household Agency said on Sunday (Feb 23).

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito, marking his 65th birthday, stressed the importance to keep telling the tragedy of the World War II to younger ... the ordeals during and after the war grew have grown ...

Japan will mark the 80th anniversary of its surrender in World War II on August 15. During WWII, Japan fought in China and Burma -- today, Myanmar -- against Allied forces, and tried to invade British ...

It was reorganized in 1942 under the Bank of Japan Act of 1942, which reflected the wartime context. The Act of 1942 was amended several times after World War II, and the establishment of the ...