The US went soft over the decades in economic competition with Europe, Japan and the USSR. Europe had to rebuild itself after World War 2 and then Europe had more regulations and less willingness to ...

The U.S.-Japanese alliance that emerged after World War II was a cornerstone of containment, a central part of the U.S. strategy for waging the Cold War. The occupation of Japan was necessary not ...

As Japan surrendered on September 2, 1945, more than one million Japanese nationals were taken prisoners by the Red Army and sent to camps ...

USSR-Japan relations . Rethinking the Early Years of the US-Japan Alliance and Soviet Competition By Robert Farley. The early years of the U.S.-Japan alliance in the post-war era were ...

James from Japan Probe reports on a multi-lingual website that displays the drawing of a Japanese soldier, Kiuchi Nobuo, on his memories of the World War II. Skip to main content Receive great stories ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: By early 1945, the U.S. military had ample evidence that an amphibious invasion of the Japanese home islands would prove exceptionally bloody and destructive ...

Japan and the USSR had fought a brief but sharp engagement at Khalkin Gol in 1939, where the Red Army dealt the Kwantung Army a nasty bloody nose.

Japan’s government faces pressure to curtail debt-fueled spending that some argue has staved off populist waves. By River Akira Davis and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Tokyo Japan, which has the ...