On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese empire capitulated after the United States threw atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was the last country of the Axis powers that continued its war, and ...

On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito gave a speech on the radio in which he announced the unconditional ...

A new documentary is looking to shine a light on Japanese-Americans who were placed in internment camps by the U.S. government during World War II. Despite a ban on cameras inside the camps, the ...

Dr Daniel Cowling, Senior Historian at the National Army Museum, traces the battles that continued long after VJ Day was ...

NEW YORK — In “The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On,” a 1987 documentary that takes many abrupt twists and turns, one of the most surprising comes about a half-hour in. The Japanese director Kazuo Hara ...

Later this month, OPB will premiere a new historical documentary "Oregon's Japanese Americans," which explores the history of Oregon's Japanese community from its early pioneer beginnings to its ...

After eight long years of hard work on her directorial debut, everything is coming up Rachel Michiko Whitney. The journey of documenting and crafting her family’s Japanese and Japanese American legacy ...

Learn history from someone who lived it when the Butte County Library presents “Mr. Tanimoto’s Journey,” a documentary about Gridley resident Jim Tanimoto, a survivor of World ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan is paying tribute to more than 3 million war dead as the country marks its surrender 80 years ago, ending World War II, as concern grows about the rapidly fading memories of the ...