And more importantly, the tour also motivated local residents to purchase tens of thousands of dollars of war bonds and stamps to help the government fight the Axis powers in World War II.

In 1941, during World War II, American forces on Wake Island surrendered to Japanese forces. In 1948, former Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were executed in Tokyo.

during the horrific opening months of World War II. Here’s an anecdote for you: when asked what the decisive ingredients of U.S. victory in the Pacific War had been, wartime Japanese prime ...

Even 75 years later, Yoneko Uehara can still hear her classmate disobeying an official's order to kill herself while facing enemy forces near the end of World War II. The student, whom she ...

In 1941, during World War II, American forces on Wake Island surrendered to Japanese forces. In 1948, former Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were executed in Tokyo. In ...

Renowned economists, like Poland's Michał Kalecki and France's Daniel Guérin, have documented how corporations were integral to the rise of fascism before World War II. In Nazi Germany ... fuel the ...

The story goes that fanatical Japanese militarists pressured the unwilling Emperor Hirohito into World War II, with a suicidal zeal that it took ... family man and amateur biologist; it was Tojo who ...

In 1948, former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were hanged in Tokyo under sentence of the Allied War Crimes Commission. In 1972, a series of earthquakes killed about ...