which demanded Japan’s unconditional surrender, on Aug. 14. But Japanese soldiers were still fighting on many frontlines on Aug. 15. Ending hostilities is a matter that involves warring countries.

I think the Japanese had a substantial basis to believe that Ketsu-Go could deliver something to them better than unconditional surrender." Although the Japanese emperor, Hirohito, had approved ...

In Japan, meanwhile, there was little Togo could do to persuade the military not to prepare for the final decisive battle for which all men, women, and children were being readied to resist to the ...

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the ...

The Japanese saw their leaders signing the articles of capitulation aboard the United States Ship Missouri. They couldn’t deny any more than the Germans could that they had lost. It accomplished the ...

and the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters signed at Tokyo Bay their acceptance of the Allied Powers’ provisions for an unconditional surrender. After mass destruction of European cities ...

and the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters signed at Tokyo Bay their acceptance of the Allied Powers’ provisions for an unconditional surrender. After mass destruction of European cities ...