Japan Surrenders

This short newsreel, produced for the home market, shows the final events of World War II, including the development and testing of the atomic bomb, the atomic bombing of Japan, the Japanese surrender, and the U.S. occupation of the Japanese mainland including Honshu, and the arrival of the U.S. Third Fleet in Tokyo Bay. The film not only includes the Japanese surrender on the USS Missouri (BB-63) in Tokyo Bay, the celebration in Manhattan's Times Square, and a parade in Red Square Moscow. Some of the people shown in the film include: Admiral William Halsey, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman, Stalin, Lt. Gen. Kawabe, Lt. Gen. R.K. Sutherland, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Foreign Minister Shigemitsu, Lt. Gen. J.M. Wainwright, Lt. Gen. A.E. Percival and Admiral Chester Nimitz.

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Widespread looting in occupied territories (valuable goods from banks, depositories, temples, churches, mosques, museums, businesses, private homes, etc.) was organized on a massive scale by official secret organization called Kin no yuri (Golden Lily) headed by Chichibu, Hirohito’s brother.

Mass raped by Japanese soldiers in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia, where some victims were pre-menstruating girls.

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Between November 1944 and April 1945, Japan launched over 9,300 balloon bombs (or Fu-Go) to attack US and Canada. One bomb killed a woman and 5 children in south Oregon.

A tacit order from Hirohito to execute all Chinese POWs before the surrender of Japan, out of thousands of Chinese POWs, only 56 survived; and to eliminate evidences, all surviving human test subjects in Japanese Army’s chemical and biological research units were executed before the surrender of Japan.

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Thousands of POWs and captured civilians were transported to Japan, Taiwan, Indochina, Manchuria, or Korea to be used as forced labor perished in Hell ships such as Oryoku Maru, Junyo Maru, Dainichi Maru, Arisan Maru, and many more.

Only 52,000 of the 270,000 Javanese forced laborers being sent to other Japanese held areas survived after WWII, a death rate of 80%.

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Most victims of the human experimentations were Chinese, also American, British, Australian and Russian POWs.

At least six different chemical and biological attacks were conducted in China, such as Changde chemical and biological weapon attack in Hunan, and twice Kaimingjie germ weapon attacks in Zhejiang, chemical weapons attack in Battle of Wuhan and Battle of Zaoyang-Yichang.

Cyanide gas was tested on Australian and Dutch POWs on Kai Islands of Indonesia.

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Various Japanese Army Units (100, 200, 516, 543, 731, 773, 1644, 1855, 2646, 8604, 9420) researched and developed chemical (potassium cyanide, phosgene, chlorine, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic trichloride, sulfer mustard, lewisite etc.) and biological (anthrax, glanders, rusts, bubonic plague, typhoid, typhus, cholera, smallpox, botulism, tuberculosis, malaria, etc.) weapons, and conducted lethal human experimentations on the general population in Japanese occupied territories.

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The Three Alls Policy (Kill all, Burn all, Loot all) sanctioned by Hirohito was to massacre an entire village if they suspected an enemy hiding in the village, such as the Panjiayu Massacre in Hebei, China.

More than 100,000 civilians and POWs died in the construction of the Death Railway (or Thailand-Burma Railway), especially at Hellfire Pass.

After March 20, 1943, the Japanese Navy was under orders to execute all POWs taken at sea.

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• Manila Massacre in Manila, Philippines • Nanking Massacre in Nanking, China • Palawan Massacre in Palawan, Philippinnes • Parit Sulong Massacre in Johor, Malaysia • Sandakan Death Marches in Borneo, Indonesia • Sook Ching Massacre in Singapore • SS Tjisalak Massacre by Japanese submarine I-8 • Terror Bombing of Chongqing, China • Tol Plantation Massacre in Australian Territory of New Guinea • Wake Island Massacre in North Pacific Ocean • Hsuchow (Xuzhou) Massacre in Jiangsu, China

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The followings are all well documented massacres and war crimes committed by the Japanese Army during WWII:

• Alexandra hospital Massacre in Singapore

• Bangka Island Massacre in Duch East Indies (now Indonesia)

• Bataan Death March in Philippines

• Benxihu Colliery in Liaoning, China

• Bombing of Darwin and Broome, Australia

• Changjiao Massacre in Hunan, China

• Double Tenth Incident in Singapore

• Kalagong Massacre in Burma