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 ...
Hiroshima and Nagasaki each had an Atomic bomb dropped on them, forcing the formal Japanese surrender on 15th August announced by Emperor Hirohito, and two weeks later, on September 2nd ...
March 28, 1885 was an important day in the life of the region that, more than seven decades later, would become the Gold ...
The late leftist journalist Andrew Kopkind pointed to “the universal desire of statesmen to make their most monstrous ...
The Tokyo Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs is a full circle moment for Japanese baseball.
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 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 ...
With changing times and changing political leadership, more and more Japanese-era buildings are being restored and reopened ...
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?