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 ...

Trains still ran in Japan even after emperor’s 1945 surrender speech

SAITAMA—Japan continued to operate its rail network even after Emperor Hirohito for the first time addressed his subjects ...
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Japan's last kamikaze attack of WW2 | The last kamikaze pilot: Admiral Matome Ugaki

On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito gave a speech on the radio in which he announced the unconditional surrender of Japan to the Allied powers. Among many nationalistic Japanese, ...

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 ...