NORFOLK, Va. — A new exhibit on the U.S. occupation of Japan after World War II opens Aug. 23 at the MacArthur Memorial, paired with a special lecture series on the war’s final weeks in the Pacific.

The Allied victory, severe devastation of Manila, which historians compare to Warsaw or Berlin,were crucial steps towards ...

At the Museum of Veterans in Vilonia, there is a framed copy of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender. It was a donation to the museum by an old sailor who was there for the proceedings some 80 years ...

Today is the anniversary of the formal Sept. 2, 1945, surrender of Japan to the United States. This is the day when documents were signed officially ending years of bloody fighting in a ceremony ...