Wall St. Insights Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many ...

Part I: Meiji restoration: 1868 -- Empires in conflict -- Part II: Japan versus America and the world: 1931-1941 -- Ultra-nationalism and the death of democracy -- Japan versus China: From phoney war ...

Pike’s book is an extraordinary achievement; it is as definitive as any single-volume history of the Pacific War can be. As the title suggests, Pike does not let Japanese Emperor Hirohito off the hook ...

Beach assault, Saipan, June 1944. USGov PD. June 15, 1944 U.S. Marines and Army troops, supported by a massive fleet, invade Saipan in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific. June 19, 1944 Japan's ...

Dec. 7—Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor 80 years ago was not the knockout punch the Japanese organizers had hoped for, and one historian says it most likely had just the opposite effect. After ...

Pike (Empires at War), a journalist and historian who focuses on Asian military history, offers a spectrum of fresh perspectives on a war generally presented in Western terms that minimize Japan's ...

Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri (BB-63), 2 September 1945. Lieutenant General Richard K.

The Oppenheimer movie has brought up the question of whether two fission bombs were needed to end the war with Japan. This question requires understanding the situation in 1945. Germany did not ...

Japan marked the 80th anniversary of its World War II defeat on Friday, with at least one cabinet minister joining thousands of visitors at a shrine that Japan’s Asian neighbors view as a symbol of ...

Sergeant Franklin G. Talley and a member of the Royal Air Force (RAF) held up the 'Evening News' newspaper, its front page proclaiming 'Japan Surrenders,' in London, August 1945. TONNE FRED/IWM On ...