Second world war
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Royal family marks VJ Day anniversary in the UK – video
The royal family leads the UK’s commemorations on the 75th anniversary of VJ Day – the day the second world wa…
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UK marks 75th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day
VJ Day was declared when emperor Hirohito ordered his people to stop fighting in second world warThe 75th anni…
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Japan PM sparks anger with near-identical speeches in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
‘It’s the same every year. He talks gibberish and leaves,’ says one survivor after plagiarism app detects 93% …
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Don’t let the victors define morality – Hiroshima was always indefensible | Kenan Malik
The decision 75 years ago to use atomic bombs was fuelled not by strategy but by sheer inhumanity“If we’d lost…
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Harry Truman and the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Letters
Daniel Snowman interviewed the former US president in 1963 and reveals what he was told. Frank Jackson thinks …
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Hiroshima marks 75th anniversary of atomic bombing – in pictures
City remembers world’s first atomic bombing with downsized ceremonies due to coronavirus and mayor urging nati…
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Hiroshima at 75: bitter row persists over US decision to drop the bomb
Historians and military differ on whether 1945 bombing ended the war and saved countless lives – or was an unc…
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Daughters of the bomb: my reckoning with Hiroshima, 75 years later
On the 75th anniversary of the A-bomb, a Japanese American writer speaks to one of the last living survivors –…
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‘He felt he had to do it’: Truman’s grandson on bombing Hiroshima
Seventy-five years after the US president’s decision opened the nuclear age, Clifton Daniel is still grappling…
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California formally apologizes to Japanese Americans for internment camps
Effort comes 78 years after US forced more than 120,000 people of Japanese descent from their homes during the…
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My father, the quiet hero: how Japan’s Schindler saved 6,000 Jews
Chiune Sugihara’s son tells how he learned of his father’s rescue mission in Lithuania, which commemorates his…
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My father, the quiet hero: how Japan’s Schindler saved 6,000 Jews
Chiune Sugihara’s son tells how he learned of his father’s rescue mission in Lithuania, which commemorates his…
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Japanese officials helped procure wartime sex slaves, report claims
News agency says diplomatic dispatches contradict claims that so-called ‘comfort women’ worked willinglyThe Ja…
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Mark Rylance: the Japanese put grandad through hell … but I can’t share his hatred
The Oscar-winning actor reveals how a TV film on his grandfather’s years as a PoW raised tough moral questions…
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Japan’s rising sun flag is not a symbol of militarism | Letter
Ohtaka Masato of Japan’s foreign affairs ministry says his country’s flag should not be banned at the 2020 Oly…
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Wreckage discovered of Japanese ships from WWII battle of Midway – video
Marine archaeologists discuss what they believe to be the wreck of the Japanese aircraft carrier the Akagi, wh…
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‘Humbling’ wreckage of Japanese ships from battle of Midway found in Pacific
Aircraft carriers Akagi and Kaga were sunk by US forces during second world war confrontationMarine archaeolog…
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‘I don’t have much hope’: Koreans search for loved ones who died fighting for Japan
As Tokyo marks the end of war in Pacific, conscripts’ families search for information on where their forebears…
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Strategies for nuclear weapons and waste | Letters
It is essential that Europe does not become the arena for a build-up of nuclear weapons, writes Catherine West…
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Hiroshima remembers – in pictures
Survivors mark 74th anniversary of atomic bombing of city in second world war with one minute’s silence Contin…