Which brings us to Five Ways Japan Could Have Won. Now, the items catalogued below are far from mutually exclusive. The Japanese leadership would have boosted its prospects had it embraced them all.

The Battle of Okinawa was the bloodiest fight in the Pacific theater in World War II, with tens of thousands killed across ...

How an often overlooked World War II-era shipbuilder designed the boat that Eisenhower said 'won the war for us' US soldiers exit an LCVP and head ashore at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. Reuters/File ...

Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, Japan’s chief naval strategist during World War II, was a gambler who “won large sums on poker, bridge, shogi—Japanese chess—and the Japanese game of stones known as ...