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To Mark Japan's Surrender at the End of World War II, This Navy Officer Raced Halfway Around the World With a Historic Flag in Tow
Then, on August 23, eight days after Japanese Emperor Hirohito announced his nation’s surrender, Bremyer’s superior at the ...
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Why the atomic bomb didn’t really end the Second World War
Hirohito had already given his view, four days before, that the Allied ultimatum sent from the Potsdam Conference the previous month – that Japan must either surrender or face “prompt and ...
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INTERVIEW/ Takumi Sato: Japan should stop acting like World War II ended on Aug. 15
These features center around Aug. 15, the date when Emperor Hirohito announced Japan’s surrender in the war. But Takumi Sato, professor of media history at Sophia University, argues that war ...
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The War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
August 12, 1945 Japan receives America's response to the Japanese conditional surrender. Secretary of State James Byrnes makes it clear that Emperor Hirohito and the militarists will no longer be ...