About 1,400 firearms and 1,200 swords were discovered buried underneath an elementary school in Tokyo, Japan. Authorities ...

World War II ended 75 years ago ... It also launched a seven-year U.S. occupation that lasted until the San Francisco Peace Treaty took effect in April 1952, allowing Japan’s return to the ...

No war – won or lost – is ever waged without sacrifice. Those sacrifices can be material in the loss of equipment or infrastructure, monetary in the cost to a nation’s economy of waging a war but ...

leading to the end of World War II. The US forces quickly moved in to launch Operation Blacklist, a mission to demilitarize and democratize Japan. During the next years of occupation, the US ...

This moment was not broadcast throughout the world as the surrender ceremony ... many of the changes wrought during the occupation had roots in pre-war Japanese reform movements.

Much has been written about and tributes made to the two highly decorated Japanese-American military units that fought in the European theater during World War ... Japan during the Allied ...

Their ordeal continued even after August 15, 1945, when Japan surrendered unconditionally to the Allied forces, ending the second world ... war orphans. US forces during their seven-year ...

The Battle of Okinawa was one of the bloodiest and costliest of World War II in the Pacific ... their lives during the nearly three months of fighting. Just 350 miles from Japan's southernmost ...