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 ...

World War II ended 75 years ago ... bombings of Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and Nagasaki on Aug. 9, Japanese Emperor Hirohito broadcast a surrender message to his people on the radio.

When my mother was asked why she joined the Navy during World War II, she would reply ... was to make the enemy decide that Hitler and Hirohito weren’t worth fighting for anymore—to ...

The Tokyo Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs is a full circle moment for Japanese baseball.

Emperor Hirohito, in his 1945 surrender address ... its generosity, and its goodwill since World War II.” The fact that the United States is an exceptional nation is regularly intoned, not just by ...

and baseball was so embedded in the culture that when Japanese infantry charged at American forces during World War II, some would yell, “To hell with Babe Ruth!” By then, the nation had its ...

His acclaimed works, Hirohito's War: The Pacific War, 1941-1945 and Empires at War: A Short History of Modern Asia Since World War II, offer compelling insights into military and geopolitical history.

With changing times and changing political leadership, more and more Japanese-era buildings are being restored and reopened ...

A tour led by an 88-year-old guide in Bastogne, Belgium, scene of a critical battle of World War II, offers a snapshot into ...