On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito gave a speech on the radio in which he announced the unconditional ...
In a war where many Japanese aircraft were fast but fragile, the Mitsubishi Ki-51 stood out as a rugged, dependable workhorse ...
Japan's former prime minister Tomiichi Murayama, best known for making a statement apologising over World War II, died Friday ...
Sept. 2 marks the 80th anniversary of Japan's formal World War II surrender. The capitulation was by design forceful and imposing, an absolutely made for Hollywood event -- as in Hollywood documentary ...
Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru on Friday issued a message to mark 80 years since the end of World War Two. He ...
Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who issued Japan’s landmark apology for wartime atrocities during World War ...
Tomiichi Murayama, Japan's prime minister from 1994, was best known for the "Murayama Statement," an apology delivered on the ...
On Thursday, 18 pieces of ordnance believed to date to WWII were detonated on land at Kubasu Beach on Miyakojima, an island ...