1. Japan has been making efforts across the board to improve its ability to defend itself, having depended on the United States for protection since World War II.
2. Japan was occupied by the United States after it was defeated in World War II.
3. Japanese officials have signed the act of unconditional surrender, finally bringing to an end six years of world war.
4. It is seen by critics as a symbol of the militarist regime that led Japan into World War II.
5. If that turns out to be the case, it would mark the first annual decline by such " advanced economies " since World War II.
6. The Cairo Declaration of 1943 and the Potsdam Proclamation of 1945 defined the terms for the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II.
7. The fourth quarter figures cap a miserable economic year overall that sent Japan to its steepest recession since World War II.
8. Eventually the site proved to be too expensive and technically challenging for Samara, the Soviet reserve capital during World War II.
9. Celebrations carried on into the small hours of this morning in the biggest street party since France was liberated after World War II.
10. He resigned from the newspaper to enlist in the Navy, where he commanded a sub chaser in the Pacific during World War II.