Japan on Monday marked the 77th anniversary of its surrender in World War II, struggling to help bring momentum to efforts to build a peaceful world amid Russia's nearly six-month-old invasion of Ukraine and mounting tension between the United States and China over Taiwan.A government-sponsored ceremony to mourn the around 2.3 million military personnel and 800,000 civilians who perished in the war on the Japanese side was held in Tokyo, though in a scaled-back form for the third straight year as the country faces another wave of the coronavirus pandemic."Under the flag of proactive contrib…READ FULL ARTICLE
