In the summer of 1945, Japan's defeat was assured, but Japan's frantic resistance in Okinawa and other places led to a large number of Allied casualties. At that time, the US military had already formulated the "Crown" operation and the "Olympic" action plan for landing in Kyushu and the Kanto region, and the United States, out of the protection of the lives of Allied officers and soldiers, forced Japan to surrender as soon as possible, and in order to suppress the Soviet Union, US President Truman and senior military personnel decided to use Tokyo, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Ogura, Niigata and other cities in Japan as alternative targets for dropping atomic bombs. Atomic bombs were dropped to speed up the war. The photo shows a Japanese person burned in an atomic bomb.
On August 6 and 9, U.S. forces dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, causing numerous Casualties among Japanese civilians and military personnel. On August 15, Emperor Hirohito issued an edict announcing Japan's unconditional surrender. At 9:00 a.m. on September 2, 1945, the Japanese Foreign Minister, representing the Emperor and government of Japan, and the Chief of Staff representing the Japanese Army signed the Instrument of Surrender in turn. At 9 o'clock on September 9, the ceremony of surrender in the Chinese Theater of World War II was held in the auditorium of the Central Army Officer School in Nanjing, and on behalf of the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army, he Yingqin, the commander-in-chief of the army on behalf of the government of the Republic of China, formally submitted the instrument of surrender to He Yingqin, commander-in-chief of the army representing the government of the Republic of China. The photo shows the Japanese surrender ceremony on the main deck of the USS Missouri.
After Japan announced its unconditional surrender, the Japanese troops scattered throughout our country were repatriated one after another. According to incomplete statistics at that time, the number of Japanese troops stranded in various parts of our country after Japan's defeat reached more than 1.2 million, plus the total number of their relatives reached more than 2 million, in the face of this part of the defeated Japanese army and their families, our country chose to treat them mercifully, and sent them back to China one after another. In the photo are surrendered Japanese troops.
When these captives were repatriated to China, the murderous and mighty Japanese troops of the past no longer had the spirit of the time, they were all ragged, carrying bags, and looking depressed, and they probably did not think that they would be defeated. At the same time, soldiers from defeated countries will be repatriated to Japan, and some Japanese troops who cannot face defeat have chosen to commit suicide by breaking their stomachs, which may be the only "Bushido spirit" left in his heart. But more Japanese troops still chose to obey the arrangement and live well. The photo shows Japanese troops repatriated.
Many japanese veterans returned to Japan only to find that they had been pronounced dead, that their homes had long since disappeared, that many neighborhoods of the city had been razed to the ground, and that many of their parents and wives had been killed in air raids or evacuated to the countryside. There are also many wives of the Japanese army who have long remarried to others. Some people choose to beg in order to survive, and those who have a little savings choose to do small business. The Japanese are throwing a large number of bullets into the sea. After the defeat of the war, the japanese society and people's livelihood were poor, and the Japanese soldiers could not find any jobs after returning to China, and some simply went to the train station to sell cigarettes or polish shoes. In this way, they could only avoid starvation, because the prices of Goods in Japan were soaring at that time, and all kinds of materials were extremely scarce. The Japanese soldiers in the picture are pulling American soldiers around.
According to Japanese government statistics, there were 123,510 war orphans and homeless street children in Japan at that time. Of those, 28,248 lost their parents in airstrikes. 11,351 people were orphaned during the arduous repatriation journey. Another 2,640 people were confirmed to have been "abandoned," in addition to more than 80,000 children who went missing with their parents after the war. In the photo, a Japanese woman on a Japanese street is forcibly dragged away by American soldiers.
As a defeated country, Japan is about to be tried by the Allies, especially those right-wingers who have committed war crimes. In order to escape or mitigate their own guilt, many Japanese right-wingers have moved their minds and thrown their own sugar-coated shells at the US military. In order to bribe the US military and soften the US military's tough attitude toward Japan, the Japanese cabinet set up an organization called the "Youxing Association" and allocated funds to recruit "special women" to serve the US military. In the photo, a Japanese soldier is holding a Japanese woman in the "Yuxinghui".
In the photo are American soldiers and his "Japanese girlfriend". The American David Bergamini wrote in The Intrigue of the Emperor of Japan: "On August 23, 1945, at the behest of the Japanese Police Inspector General, the owners of Tokyo's main geisha teahouses, bars and brothels formed a 'wandering club' to entertain Allied soldiers. Within a few weeks, the association opened 33 service companies in Tokyo. A large military factory in Tokyo, converted into a restaurant, has a 'production line' of 250 girls who host American soldiers and invite famous geisha to teach girls the tricks of pleasing men. ”
Soon the Japanese government's bribery of the U.S. military reached the ears of the American family members, who expressed strong opposition to it, and MacArthur, the commander of the Far Eastern Army, was forced to order the closure of these happy nests. But in practice, these sites still serve the U.S. military. The women were divided into two categories: "Anli" (U.S. military companion) and "Panpan" (street solicitor). In the end, most of the "Anli" and the Japanese-American mixed race were abandoned at the moment the U.S. military returned home. In fact, these women are all pitiful. They are just sacrifices of the Japanese government to save itself. In the photo, the U.S. military picks up two Japanese women.