Japanese bombers in World War II. Caption reads: Airplanes from the Imperial Japanese Navy are carrying bombs . They are ready to take off for...
Japanese bombers in World War II. Caption reads: Airplanes from the Imperial Japanese Army are bombing an enemy city. Enemy airplanes are shot down,...
Two emaciated allied prisoners of war after their release from captivity near Yokohama, World War II, 11 September, 1945.
The Battle of Khalkhyn Gol was the decisive engagement of the undeclared SovietÐJapanese Border War fought between the Soviet Union, Mongolia and the...
Photograph of General Tomoyuki Yamashita surrending . An Imperial Japanese Army general during World War II. He was executed by hanging after being...
Germany Free State Prussia Berlin : Tripartite Pact After the signing of the Pact in the Reich Chancellery: Adolf Hitler talking to the Japanese...
The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's...
World War II Photo - Surrender ceremony on USS Missouri Tokyo Bay. Japanese foreign minister, Namoru Shigemitsu, signs surrender terms as Allied...
The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese...
Comfort women were women and girls forced into a prostitution corps created by the Empire of Japan during World War II. The name 'comfort women' is a...
The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese...
Tokyo Bay: WORLD WAR II: JAPANESE SURRENDER. Namoro Shigomitso signs on behalf Japan and the Japanese government during formal surrender ceremonies...
The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's...
Mushroom cloud rising into the air after the atom bomb was dropped on Nagasaki at the end of World War II.
The Japanese Invasion of French Indochina, also known as the Vietnam Expedition, was a move by the Empire of Japan in September 1940, during the...
The Pacific War, also sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War, refers broadly to the parts of World War II that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its...
Parachute bombs about to land and explode on a Japanese plane, camouflaged with branches and covered in graffiti, on the ground during a low-level...
Unit 731 was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human...
Four Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers of the XXI Bomber Command, part of the United States Air Force Global Strike Command , on a bombing raid over...
South Korean Lee Chun-sik a 95-year-old victim of forced labor during Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula before the end of World War II,...
The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese...
Comfort women were women and girls forced into a prostitution corps created by the Empire of Japan during World War II. The name 'comfort women' is a...
The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese...
The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. After the Japanese...
War Crimes Trial of Hideki Tojo general of the Imperial Japanese Army. Prime Minister of Japan during much of World War II. Tojo was arrested,...
World War II in the Pacific Japanese Surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945; General Yoshijiro Umezo is signing the...
The USS California burns after it was attacked with torpedoes by the Japanese during World War II, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz signs surrender documents recognizing the defeat of Japan as officials and soldiers look on, USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay,...
People visit the Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression to mark the 78th anniversary of Japan's surrender in...
The Japanese Invasion of French Indochina, also known as the Vietnam Expedition, was a move by the Empire of Japan in September 1940, during the...
The Battle of Khalkhyn Gol was the decisive engagement of the undeclared SovietÐJapanese Border War fought between the Soviet Union, Mongolia and the...
The Battle of Khalkhyn Gol was the decisive engagement of the undeclared SovietÐJapanese Border War fought between the Soviet Union, Mongolia and the...
Elderly South Korean women, who were forced to serve as sax slaves for Japanese troops during World War II, lead a rally outside the Japanese embassy...
Picture taken on October 1, 1948 in Tokyo shows Hideki Tojo, former Japanese Premier and General in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II,...
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl...
In September 1945 000 British troops of the 20th Indian Division occupied Saigon under the command of General Sir Douglas David Gracey. During the...
People show old Japanese newspaper, recounting the war stories of the imperial Japanese army in China and Korea, as they come to pay respects to the...
The Battle of Khalkhyn Gol was the decisive engagement of the undeclared SovietÐJapanese Border War fought between the Soviet Union, Mongolia and the...
Unit 731 was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human...
Crowd a staircase while reading about Japan's offer to surrender in the 'Stars and Stripes' newspaper during World War II, Paris. VJ Day came four...
Comfort women were women and girls forced into a prostitution corps created by the Empire of Japan during World War II. The name 'comfort women' is a...
Full-length image of Japanese POWs standing in rows with their heads bowed behind a barbed wire fence in an Allied internment camp during World War...
Japanese delegation, led by Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, approaching the table to sign the surrender aboard the US battleship USS Missouri, September...
In South East Asia Japanese invasion of Burma from January 1942: bomber pilots of the Japanese Air Force receiving mission orders before their flight...
Korean students welcome, with banners and U.S. Flags, a convoy of American soldiers in jeeps during the liberation of Korea from the Japanese...
Photo dated September 1945 of the remains of the Prefectural Industry Promotion Building after the bombing of Hiroshima, which was later preserved as...
Tokyo in ruins. October 1945. A black market in the street. Strategic bombing and urban area bombing began in 1944 after the long-range B-29...
China, then under the Qing Dynasty, was defeated by Japan in the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95. China was forced to cede Taiwan to the Japanese,...
Surrender of the Kwantung army. The Kwantung Army was stationed in Manchukuo and was one of the main Japanese fighting forces during the Second...
Japanese Ground Home Defence Forces' soldier walks past amphibious assault vehicles during an amphibious landing exercise at the beach of the...
Mother is reunited with her son after he is released from a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp in Siberia, 31st December 1956. He and his fellow prisoners...
Tokyo residents who lost their homes as a result of the U.S. Bombings. 10th March 1945. The Operation Meetinghouse air raid of 9-10 March 1945 was...
Four Japanese-American US servicemen ride in a jeep, towing a supply trailer on a rural road in France, World War II.
Navy lieutenant Thomas M Brown of Mitaria, Louisiana, confers with the head of the Saga General Hospital staff, Dr Shigeru Kawada , about the...
Private First Class Lyle O. Slaght , member of the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, scouts out an area next to a cloud of burning gasoline used to...
The USS Arizona sinking in a cloud of smoke after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II, Hawaii.
Japanese soldiers on an aircraft carrier wave at a plane from under their flag just before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, World War II.