The last retired military personnel or civilian employee who received Japanese government medical benefits for trauma or ...

Their ordeal continued even after August 15, 1945, when Japan surrendered unconditionally to the Allied forces, ending the second world war, the deadliest conflict in history. 5 things to know ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito visited Iwo Jima on Monday to pay tribute to those who died on the island where one of the Second World War’s harshest battles was fought 80 years ago. The visit by Naruhito ...

The bombs also brought an end to the Second World War, with Japan surrendering on August 15. “Mr President, I feel I have blood on my hands,” Oppenheimer told then-president Truman in the ...

The 40,000,000-50,000,000 deaths in World War II make it the bloodiest conflict and the largest war in history. World War II changed the world map and geopolitics forever. In this war, America dropped ...

After the Second World War, Japan's foreign direct investment (FDI) has expanded through a number of stages. FDI began in the early 1950s, but was conducted only on a small scale until the beginning ...

In Total War, eyewitnesses from Britain, Germany, Russia, Korea, Japan, and the United States tell the story of the civilians – children, sisters, brothers – who suffered and died in the Second World ...

World War II utterly transformed Mobile and its economy. The explosion began in the late 1930s, when local companies such as Alcoa began producing war materiel for Japan and European countries.

THE SECOND WORLD WAR sparked decades of scholarship. By one count, 70,000 books had already been published by 1989. The 80th anniversary of the end of the war, both in Europe and Asia, is ...

By the outbreak of the Second World War, Japan had already taken over Taiwan, Korea and parts of China, while Italy had colonised Libya and Ethiopia in Africa. But the allies had power over many ...