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Planners of the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945—marking the end not just to World War II but to 15 years of Japan’s military rampage across Asia—had more time to prepare this event than had Washington or Grant, and so cloaked it in even greater symbolism. The first was the choice of the location itself.
They avoided words that connoted dishonor like"surrender" and"defeat," and used instead the neutral term"end of the war" (shusen). The surrender rescript was the very first Japanese...
- Herbert P. Bix
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NEW ORLEANS (August 10, 2010) – On August 14, 1945 the world learned that Japan had surrendered, effectively ending World War II, a war that Americans thought would go on indefinitely. No newsflash in modern history has ever been greeted with such overwhelming celebration.
Aug 27, 2020 · Here’s why: New Orleanians had already cut loose on the afternoon of Aug. 14, when Japan’s surrender was announced. “Too late, Mr. President,” Robert McNeill, of United Press International,...
A: At noon on Aug. 15, days after the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and Nagasaki on Aug. 9, Japanese Emperor Hirohito broadcast a surrender message to his people on the radio.
Feb 17, 2011 · By the end of World War Two, Japan had endured 14 years of war, and lay in ruins - with over three million dead. Why did the war in Japan cost so much, and what led so many to fight on after the ...
