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.

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Today is the anniversary of the formal Sept. 2, 1945, surrender of Japan to the United States. This is the day when documents were signed officially ending years of bloody fighting in a ceremony ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- James Starnes will never forget the day World War II officially ended with Japan's formal surrender. He was only 24 on Sept. 2, 1945, when Japanese officials boarded the USS ...