Japan's surrender in World War II was announced on August 15, 1945, and marked the end of the war in the Pacific.

Death Note, created by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata in 2003, is a popular manga and anime series that follows a high school student who gains the power to kill anyone whose name he writes in a special notebook.

The Japanese yen is the official currency of Japan and is the third most traded currency in the world, after the US dollar and the euro.