bigpigeon.us webpage WWI Japan > Japan Overpowered > Japan Vanquished, © 2023 by Robert A. Christiansen, updated by RAC 4 Jan 2023.
Japan's surrender and subsequent occupation
This webpage is currently incomplete.
Japan's surrender and subsequent occupation
This webpage is currently incomplete.
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The Japanese Surrender
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The Occupation of Japan
I believe that one of the wisest American decisions of World War II allowed Emperor Hirohito to retain the Japanese throne. The United States then was better able to oversee the peaceful rehabilitation of Japan. General Douglas MacArthur remained in Japan until 1951, when his wings were finally clipped by President Harry Truman, who fired him for insubordination during the Korean War. Japan officially regained its independence in 1952, has been a steadfast but a bit aloof ally of the United States, and today has the world's third largest economy. The United States has retained a modest military presence in Japan. Japan, one of the most militaristic societies in the world in the 1930s, has never rebuilt a sizable military. However, Japan has not atoned for its crimes against humanity before and during World War II to the extent that Germany has done. |
MacArthur and Hirohito - September 1945
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Sources for Big Pigeon's Japan Overpowered > Japan Vanquished webpage:
Pottawattamie Area WWII Dead - Japan Overpowered > Japan Vanquished:
- The MacArthur and Hirohito, September 1945 photo is courtesy of en.wikpmedia.org.
Pottawattamie Area WWII Dead - Japan Overpowered > Japan Vanquished:
- Taken from the bigpigeon.us WWII Dead module.
- Deaths in the Japan area after the surrender announcement of 15 August 1945 and before the official surrender of 2 September.
- 386th Bomb. Sqdn., 312th Bomb Gp., based at Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, Japan; Consolidated B-32 Dominator #42-108544 gunnery officer w/ pilot Leonard M. Sill; KIA 28 Aug 1945 at Yontan Airfield during takeoff; plane skidded off the runway and exploded; crew of 13 all died; Japan Overpowered > Japan Vanquished.