On May 9, 1945, the Japanese heavy cruiser Haguro set out from Singapore, unaware that it would become part of a deadly ...

The Chinese communists fought a guerilla war behind the lines against Japan. Japan used chemical and biological weapons against China because China did not have chemical weapons. In January, 1945, ...

Japan formally surrendered to the U.S. and Allies aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945, ending a global conflict that killed up to 60 million people.

A NATIONAL two-minute silence will be held next month to mark VJ Day and honour the WW2 soldiers who fought and died in the ...

And it is exactly 70 years ago Wednesday, on Sept. 2, 1945, that 11 men representing Japan arrived aboard the battleship Missouri to surrender their country. Japanese surrendering marking the end ...

As the sun set on April 5, 1945, Convoy HO-MO-03 departed Hong Kong under heavy escort, carrying vital supplies to Japan. Among its defenders was the battered but battle-hardened destroyer Amatsukaze, ...

On Saturday, the Imperial Household Agency released a digital version of the original 1945 Hirohito speech announcing Japan's surrender.

Even in the summer of 1945, assaulting Japan seemed a grim prospect. American soldiers had suffered a forestate in the bloody invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, where Japanese troops fought to the ...

The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across ...

August 1945 was the first – and only – time that atomic bombs were used in warfare. On Aug. 6, the United States dropped one on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, the U.S. dropped another one ...

V-J Day, sometimes recognized on Aug. 14 and sometimes as the formal surrender on Sept. 2, marked the Allies' victory over Japan. Here is the WSJ's front page the next day. Today in WSJ History.