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Second World War

WW2 timeline: 20 important dates and milestones you need to know

Atomic bomb damage in the city of Hiroshima, 1945
Second World War

Was the US justified in dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War?

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Second World War

Pearl Harbor: 12 facts about the surprise attack on the US Pacific Fleet

Crossing the line: Japanese soldiers seize a railway during the invasion of Manchuria in 1931 – prompted by a staged bombing near the city of Mukden. (Photo by adoc-photos/Corbis via Getty Images)
Second World War

A gathering storm: why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor in 1941?

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Workers package Chicken Ramen, the first mass-produced instant noodles, in a factory in Japan, c1960
20th Century

The age of noodles: Momofuku Ando and the rise of ramen in post-war Japan

Japanese boats approaching a 'black ship' of US Commodore Matthew C Perry. His arrival in Japan in 1853 forcibly introduced the modern west to the semi-self-isolated island nation (Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
20th Century

From Meiji to modernity: how Japan reinvented itself through the 20th century

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Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival (far right) marches to the Japanese camp to surrender Singapore. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun Premium via Getty Images)
Second World War

VJ Day: turning the tide in the east

Scientists Frederic Joliot-Curie and his wife, Irene, at work in their Paris laboratory in December 1932. The couple were among a wide-ranging group of scientists whose work paved the way for the atomic bomb. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)
Second World War

Hiroshima: the race to the atomic bomb

With the Olympics underway in Tokyo, Chris Harding looks back at 1964 – the last time Japan hosted the competition. (Image by Getty Images)
20th Century

How the 1964 Tokyo Olympics redefined Japan

Medal winners on a podium
Victorian

Q&A Who won the first Olympic medal? And what was the prize before that?

Tokyo Olympics 1964: Yoshinori Sakai prepares to light the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony. Born on the day that the first atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima, he was a symbol of Japan’s postwar reconstruction and peace
20th Century

Tokyo Olympics 1964: the Games that defined Japan

Professor Michael Wert responds to listener questions and online search queries about the samurai of feudal Japan. (Image by Getty Images)
Medieval

Samurai: everything you wanted to know

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