How does Japan remember the end of WW2?

BBC's Tokyo correspondent Shaimaa Khalil explains why in Japan the 15 August is a mourning occasion known as the "Memorial Day for the End of the War".

World War Two in Europe ended in May 1945 but the Allies, including the UK, US and Commonwealth forces, were fighting against Japan in east Asia.

About 71,000 soldiers from Britain and the Commonwealth died in the war against Japan, including more than 12,000 prisoners of war who died in Japanese captivity.

The Allies had told Japan to surrender in July 1945, but the deadline passed.

The US dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in that year, one on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 and another in Nagasaki three days later. About 214,000 people were killed in the blasts.

The USSR joined the war on Japan. And on 15 August 1945, Japan surrendered.