After confirming that the war had ended, civilians and soldiers of the Allied countries were extremely happy about it, and many allied countries began to hold many events in various places to celebrate the victory of the war against Japan during August 14 and August 15. Among them, Alfred Eisenstart took the famous photo "V-J Day in Times Square", which shows an American sailor kissing another woman in public in Times Square. In addition, while Australia celebrated the end of the war, local journalists also took photos of people celebrating happily, "Dancing Man". But at the same time, the Soviet government revealed in negotiations with the United States that it hopes to occupy the local area of Hokkaido.
But unlike the United States allowing the Soviet Union to occupy East Germany and North Korea and master local development, this plan to occupy the inland Japan was opposed by US President Harry S. Truman. On August 14, 1945, Zhu De Peng Dehuai sent Chen Jiang, publicly expressing his resistance to the order given to the army on garrison on August 10. On August 15, Zhu De also called himself the "Commander-in-Chief of the Anti-Japanese Army of the China Liberated Area" and called Okamura Yasuji (Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Expeditionary Army) to order his Japanese army to surrender to the army. On August 16, Chiang Kai-shek called the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Chinese Expeditionary Army, Okamura Yasuji. At 5:32 pm on August 17, he received a telegram from Okamura Yasuji.
htmlOn August 19, Japanese officials went to Manila to meet Douglas MacArthur, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces in Japan, and briefly listened to his plans to occupy Japan. On August 28, 150 American military personnel arrived at the city of Akigi in Kanagawa Prefecture to prepare for occupation, and the U.S. Navy Third Fleet also entered Tokyo Bay, and since then it entered the military occupation of Japan by the Allies. On the same day, the Soviet Red Army also announced that the Soviet government had occupied the Kuril Islands. Then, ships led by the battleship Missouri, carrying the 4th Marine Regiment of the US Marine Corps, arrived one after another on the southern coast of Kanagawa, and other Allied personnel also went to Japan to serve.
August 30 MacArthur also arrived in Tokyo for a visit, and then issued several laws to maintain social order in Japan, including that allied personnel are not allowed to beat the Japanese people and fight for the rare food ingredients in Japan itself. In addition, the Allies initially strictly restricted the hanging of the Japanese flag and the Rising Sun Flag, requiring individuals and prefectures to use the flag after applying. This restriction was not partially lifted until 1948.
In addition, after the end of World War II , various countries and societies argued about the ethical and moral issues of the atomic bomb task conducted in Hiroshima City and Nagasaki City. The investment of the new atomic bomb weapon immediately killed nearly 200,000 Japanese people and a large number of civilians suffered damage to varying degrees of severity, and two local buildings and other infrastructure were also seriously damaged. In addition, after the atomic bomb explosion, the persons who were exposed and those who continued to live there were continued to be affected by radiation, which also made the public question whether the decision of the atomic bomb explosion to promote Japan's surrender was of importance and necessity.
surrender ceremony
Afterwards, the United States represented General Chester William Nimitz , representative of the Republic of China, representative of the Republic of China, representative of the United Kingdom, representative of the United Kingdom, representative of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant General Kuzma Derevyanko, representative of the Soviet Union, Marshal Thomas Blamey, representative of Australia, Colonel Lawrence Moore Cosgrave, representative of Canada, representative of the French Republic, representative of the Provisional Government of the French Republic, representative of the Advancement Philip Leclerc, representative of the Netherlands, representative of the Conrad Emir Lambert Helfrich (Conrad) General Emil Lambert Helfrich and Major General Leonard Monk Isitt signed in sequence, and the official end of World War II has been officially declared.
However, when signing the contract contents saved by Japan, the Canadian representative Colonel Kosglev, who lost his eyesight during World War I, accidentally signed his name down into the next field, which made the subsequent signatures of the representative representatives of the Allied countries go to the next column than the field. In response, Japanese representative Shigekimiya said that signing diplomatic documents in the wrong position may not be approved by Congress. With the departure of representatives of MacArthur and other signatory representatives, MacArthur's Chief of Staff, Richard Sutherland, decided to make a manual correction with a pen. On September 6, the documents and signatures of the "Suburdification Documents" kept by the United States were delivered to Washington District , and the next day, Harry S. Truman held a formal ceremony at White House . The "Auspension Document" retained by the United States was collected by the State Archives and Records Administration, while the version preserved in Japan was placed in the Tokyo Museum in Edo, Tokyo.
On the same day, the Emperor of Japan issued an edict:
" | I have received the promise Showa On July 26, 20th, the head of the three governments of the United States, China and the United Kingdom issued the following declarations and participated by the Soviet Union. The imperial government and its headquarters were exposed by the Supreme Commander of the United Nations. The subjugation document was signed on my behalf, and the general orders against the army and navy were announced in accordance with the instructions of the Supreme Commander of the United Nations. I ordered my subjects to stop hostilities and abandon weapons, and to fulfill all the items of the subjugation document and the general orders published by the base camp. | ” |
