Then, on August 23, eight days after Japanese Emperor Hirohito announced his nation’s surrender, Bremyer’s superior at the Messenger Mail Center handed him an order to deliver Perry’s old ...

Royal New Zealand Navy veteran Ken Gordon has received a letter from King Charles thanking him for his war service. To mark ...

Hiroshima and Nagasaki each had an Atomic bomb dropped on them, forcing the formal Japanese surrender on 15th August announced by Emperor Hirohito, and two weeks later, on September 2nd ...

August 12, 1945 Japan receives America's response to the Japanese conditional surrender. Secretary of State James Byrnes makes it clear that Emperor Hirohito and the militarists will no longer be ...

Flight Petty Officer 2nd Class Setsuo Ishino, age 19, took off from Kanoya Air Base in Japan’s Kago­shima prefecture. He was ...

Emperor Hirohito and his government were largely in thrall to these young men who in June 1945 adopted a formal policy of no surrender. Thomas shows that Hirohito was more amenable to a negotiated ...

They were ready to see the Japanese population exterminated rather than consider surrender. The decision of Hirohito to overrule the cabinet and declare surrender was extraordinary and ...