With the Japanese surrender at hand ... Halsey’s Missouri entered Tokyo Bay on August 29, 1945, just over 92 years after Perry’s Mississippi docked at that same port. While Perry’s visit ...

After attracting international attention over athletes complaining that Tokyo Bay smelled like “a toilet,” it turned out to be the scorching heat, not a foul stench, that troubled Olympic ...

Tokyo Olympic organizers wanted to ensure that competitors who splash through the turbid waters of Tokyo Bay emerge as happy as clams. So, they went to work to attract hundreds of thousands of ...

Richard Overy’s chilling new book Rain of Ruin charts the lead-up to Japan’s surrender in the second ... Those events include the firebombing of Tokyo and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima ...