TOKYO -- Japan's practice of enslaving women to provide sex for its troops in World War II had a little-known sequel: After its surrender -- and with tacit approval from U.S. occupation authorities -- ...

The horrific human atrocity of World War II ended aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay as Japan formally signed documents of surrender on this day in history, Sept. 2, 1945. The ceremony lasted just ...

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 ideas, the temper, and the ambitions of the millions of people who have lived in countries occupied for four years by the Japanese now present us with difficult problems of livelihood and ...

Gil Won-ok, who was among tens of thousands of Korean women forced into brothels for Japanese soldiers during World War II, and who became - after decades of silence - a leading voice for greater ...

The U.S. was the first nation to learn how to wring surrender from Japan. Now, as the principal victor, the U.S. must also: ¶ Occupy a country whose fanatical army of several millions is undefeated. ¶ ...