Eighty years ago, on August 30, 1945, Gen. Douglas MacArthur landed unarmed at Atsugi airfield in preparation for the surrender ceremony, which was set to take place on the battleship Missouri on ...

Mamoru Shigemitsu (1887-1957), the Japanese foreign minister who co-signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender aboard the ...

Dedicated to all members of the Greatest Generation September 2, 2025, will mark the 80th anniversary of Japan’s formal surrender, ending World War II. The historic ceremony was held aboard the ...

Eight decades since the end of the Second World War, the US-Japan alliance continues to evolve beyond its Cold War ...

Unexpectedly, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, head of the occupying forces in postwar Japan, was met with abundant respect there. In fact, respect is one of the milder attitudes and emotions in evidence in ...

In “Judgment at Tokyo,” the political scholar Gary J. Bass examines the post-World War II prosecution of Japanese military atrocities and makes the case for the real efficacy of international law. By ...

The images include Emperor Hirohito being transformed into a uniformed schoolgirl and depicted as a dog, sparking fierce ...

The formal Japanese Surrender Ceremony, which officially ended World War II, took place on the decks of the battleship USS ...

It will be on display until Oct. 1 as part of a special exhibition to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the war.

Videos ridiculing Japan's wartime emperor, Hirohito, have circulated on Chinese social media as anti-Japan sentiment rises ...