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Rape of Nanking
Saving Face After the Surrender of Japan
By Ulrich A. StrausIt will not come as a surprise to American readers that when the Japanese emperor delivered his surrender message on August 15, 1945, Allied forces led by the United States had thoroughly defeated Japan’s naval and air power in the Pacific. Read more