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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, ...

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

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.

On Saturday, the Imperial Household Agency released a digital version of the original 1945 Hirohito speech announcing Japan&#039;s surrender.

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.

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 ...

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 ...

A senior official in Japan's ruling party visited Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine for war dead on Monday, the 77th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War Two, a move likely to anger ...

It was enlightening for you to reprint the William R. Mathews editorial about the then possible Japanese attack against the US that culminated in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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 ...

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.