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How the Soviets Crushed Japan in World War II

In the final days of World War II, the Soviet Union launched a massive offensive against Japan in Manchuria. This video ...
The country’s postwar history was a remarkable story of national rebirth. Now the assumptions that underpinned the last 80 years of policy are being stressed to the limit.
A statue called “Otome no Hi” (Monument to the maidens) was erected in 1982 in Gifu Prefecture. But an explanation on who the ...
Japan and China are marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II with major events on different dates.