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Why the Japanese would rather die than surrender

Explains the mindset and military culture in WWII that led many Japanese soldiers to choose death over surrender, examining ...
Parkersburg News and Sentinel

Japan marks 80th anniversary of WWII surrender as concern grows about fading memory

Visitors dressed up line up to offer prayers at the Yasukuni Shrine on the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, in Tokyo, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte) TOKYO (AP) ...
WPLG

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

Japan Day of Surrender FILE - Reiko Muto, a former nurse student, speaks on her experience during an interview with The Associated Press on Feb. 18, 2025, at St Luke ...
Yahoo

China’s WWII anniversary parade rekindles cross-strait battle over war narrative − and fears in Taiwan of future conflict

World War II casts a very long shadow in East Asia. Eighty years after ending with Japan’s surrender to Allied forces on Sept. 2, 1945, the conflict continues to stir debate over the past, in the ...
La Crosse Tribune

Honor flight vet recalls post-WWII surrenders of Japanese holdouts

WINONA — Retired business executive Glenn Sanders of Winona was in the Navy stationed on the Pacific island when the B-29 Superfortress airplanes Enola Gay and Bockscar left Tinian to drop atomic ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram

These Star-Telegram reporters told the stories of Texans in WWII, watched Japan surrender

Fort Worth Star-Telegram war correspondents, from left, Robert Wear, Charles Boatner and Sam Kinch pictured in the newsroom after returning from covering the war, Oct. 30, 1945. Courtesy Fort Worth ...