In a time when the chaos of news-by-the-minute assaults the senses of those who yearn for perspective and analysis, it can be instructive to look back to April 1945, a month that gave the world 30 ...
The late leftist journalist Andrew Kopkind pointed to “the universal desire of statesmen to make their most monstrous ...
World War II ended 75 years ago ... But some nations mark Aug. 15 as the war’s end, the day Japan’s emperor made a speech announcing the surrender. A: An abbreviation for Victory over Japan ...
The Tokyo Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs is a full circle moment for Japanese baseball.
With changing times and changing political leadership, more and more Japanese-era buildings are being restored and reopened ...
The government said street parties and barbecues can also be held to echo the celebrations 80 years ago as the country welcomed the end of WW2 in Europe ... when Japan's Emperor Hirohito announced ...
For the first time ever, Emperor Hirohito is addressing his people ... to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. WW2: What would you have done when the bombs fell?
Was Hirohito really as passive as history has painted him? Emperor Hirohito stood at the head of Japan’s war machine, yet after 1945, both the Japanese and the Americans painted him as a ...