The United States was dragged unwillingly into World War II by the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, ...

On Nov. 12, 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese ...

Russia, the main successor state to the Soviet Union, and Japan have never signed a peace treaty formally ending their hostilities during World War II, with the islands remaining the primary ...

They also wanted their new rivals, the Soviet Union, to see their powerful ... before the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. WW2: How close did D-Day come to failure?

The end of World War Two only marked the beginning of another long nightmare for about 600,000 Japanese soldiers and civilians, detained by the Soviet Union and forced to work under brutal ...

After the end of World War II, the Soviet Union detained about 575,000 Japanese military personnel and civilian workers and 55,000 of them died before returning to Japan, according to the health ...

The official US justification for the dropping of the two atomic bombs was to force the Japanese government to ... purpose - to send a warning to the Soviet Union about the strength of the ...