While Japan won’t walk away from its alliance with the United States, the linchpin of the Asian country’s diplomacy and ...

The president seemed to forget about Hiroshima, Nagasaki and victory over the Japanese. He also wants to cancel Veterans Day.

As the importance of Victory Day in Central Asia decreases, it is needed even more in Moscow to promote and validate the war ...

The U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945, while the Soviets invaded Japanese-occupied Manchuria in northeast China on Aug. 9. “We won World War II on August 15 ...

Selected by Jonathan Horn, the author, most recently, of “The Fate of the Generals: MacArthur, Wainwright, and the Epic ...

To be sure, World War II was a product of deep ideological fissures ... in Korea and China, initially in Manchuria. This brought them into conflict with the Americans and ultimately led to the ...

In 1931, Japan invaded northeast China (Manchuria) and created the Japanese colony of Manchukuo. In 1937, Japan invaded China, starting World War II in the Pacific region. Nobody thinks that Japan ...