Every August, Japanese media outlets offer specials on World War II and accounts of survivors ... Nagasaki were thrust into Japan’s public consciousness only after the country regained ...

Born from the trauma of World War II, this bow-wearing cartoon icon became a powerful tool for diplomacy, reinvention, and ...

Each catastrophe forced the Japanese to bury history and rebuild ... remains an awkward subject in Japan. The nation’s rapid reinvention after World War II has often been attributed—by ...

The tank is now housed at the NPO Defense Technology Museum in Japan, where it will undergo ... of the Pacific and Asiatic Theaters in World War II.

Their ordeal continued even after August 15, 1945, when Japan surrendered unconditionally to the Allied forces, ending the second world war ... Japan’s post-war rush to rebuild.