About 1,400 firearms and 1,200 swords were discovered buried underneath an elementary school in Tokyo, Japan. Authorities ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers common questions readers may have about the air raids conducted by the United States across Japan during World War II ... Q: Why did the U.S. military bomb civilians ...

Many delayed detonation bombs dropped on Japan by U.S. forces during the war were set to explode between an hour to six days after hitting the ground. When such a bomb is dropped, the wind ...

For four years, America has been at war with Japan ... the bomb will be dropped on August 6. Estimated take off time 02.45. Meanwhile, President Truman is on the USS Augusta, a US navy cruiser ...

United States dropped over 2 million tons of bombs on Laos; 80 million unexploded ordnance remains. Continue funding to clear ...

In the small hours of a warm summer day, the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay flew from a US ... bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. A week later, Japan surrendered. The bomb brought World War Two to ...

A long-buried World War ... from Japan's 2011 earthquake and tsunami. An investigation by the Self-Defense Forces confirmed that it was a 250 -kilogram bomb made in the United States.

The United States dropped an atomic bomb on each Japanese city on August 6 and 9, 1945 -- the only times nuclear weapons have been used in warfare. Days later Japan ... Trump did not make the ...

U.S. scholar Emanuel Pastreich took at face value the textbooks claiming that the United States had no choice but to drop atomic bombs on Japan to ... Americans did from World War II, to the ...

Less than a month later, on August 6, 1945, the US dropped a five-ton atomic bomb on ... after that, Japan informally surrendered to the Allied forces, effectively ending World War II.