He said the global standard for the official end of the war is Sept. 2, 1945, when Japan signed the instrument of surrender. Japan’s observance of the war’s end in August, he said, is the ...

Aboard the USS Missouri, Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and Gen. Yoshijiro Umezu signed the Instrument of Surrender. The two men were later convicted of war crimes. Gen. Douglas ...

Historians often suggest that America’s super-weapon forced Hirohito to surrender in 1945. Look closer, and the truth is more ...