Japan marks end of WWII as survivors remember wartime emperor’s surrender speech 80 years ago

Friday is the 80th anniversary of then-Emperor Hirohito’s announcement of Japan’s World War II surrender, but as living ...
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Last Japanese soldier to surrender 29 years after WW2 ended | Hiroo Onoda's 1974 surrender

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 ...
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Watch the Navy destroy surrendered Japanese subs after WWII

The surrender of Japan brought an end to one of history’s largest naval conflicts, but many wartime vessels still remained. This historic footage documents the U.S. Navy’s efforts to scuttle captured ...

A Japanese soldier stayed hidden in a Philippine jungle for 29 years because he believed World War II never ended

In March 1974, a gaunt, uniformed figure walked out of the jungle on Lubang Island in the Philippines and handed over his ...