US celebrated victory over Japan 70 years ago

On August 10th, Tokyo announced that Japan was willing to surrender. In recent years, Emperor Akihito has been particularly eager to visit the islands in South Pacific where the Imperial Japanese Army engaged in a fierce battle with the United States. History is harsh. What is done can not be undone.

But the message for 100 million Japanese citizens was nevertheless clear to all – Japan had surrendered.

But on July 16, 1945, the US secretly and successfully carried out the world’s first atomic bomb detonation, giving the US another option in the war against Japan. On Friday in 1945, Japan agreed to unconditionally accept Allied surrender terms. But she said an American soldier saved her life.

“The government study has revealed that in many cases, they were recruited against their own will through coaxing, coercion, etc., and that, at times, administrative and military personnel directly took part in the recruitments”.

During the Second World War, 580,406 UK and Commonwealth Forces and 67,073 UK civilians lost their lives during six long years of conflict. “It promotes understanding”.

Just last month, Japan officially released the master audio recording of Hirohito’s surrender. The title is a reference to the emperor’s voice.

As the war neared its end, Shoji had been waiting two weeks for his “special attack” orders, wartime Japanese-speak for a kamikaze suicide mission, Yamashita said. He had been there for the duration without leave, and his only hope of seeing England again had been victory.

So the question before today’s generation is how will the past affect our future?

At the time, Japanese citizens lived in homes made of wood. “I will be sure to seek revenge”. “We thought it was the last war ever”.

By the time the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, 500,000 Japanese had already died during bombing raids, not just in Tokyo, but in smaller towns too. I understood that the magnitude of the damage pained His Majesty.

The distortions of history are largely because attempts by some right-wing Japanese officials who have sought to downplay or gloss over war-time atrocities, such as the Nanjing Massacre, the use of biological weapons and so-called “comfort women”.

Seiichi’s military role was to become a living land mine, lying down on a beach and detonating the mine he and others were wearing as invading enemy tanks approached.

But despite several bombing raids a week in the beginning of 1945, and the resulting displacement of 5,000,000 people, the Japanese remained resolute.

Floridians heard the longed-for news at 7 p.m. that evening: The war was over!

There was no joy that he had somehow survived.

Upon returning home, several village residents told him that he was supposed to be dead, Yamashita said.