This year, as ever, the date passed largely unobserved in Japan.
Few modern citizens consider it fit for celebration, coming as it does just weeks after the anniversaries of the atom bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Second World War not yet over for far-right internet movement
Last Thursday marked the 65th anniversary of the Japanese surrender to Allied Forces, which effectively ended the Second World War.
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