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Kim Suk-won (29 September 1893 – 6 August 1978) was a Korean officer in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Kim was one of the highest-ranking ethnic Koreans in the Japanese Army during the Second World War. He later became a general in the Republic of Korea Army during the Korean War.
Ambassadors from Japan to South Korea started when Toshikazu Maeda presented his credentials to the Korean government in 1965. Diplomatic relations were established by the Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea in 1965. [1] The current official title of this diplomat is "Ambassador of Japan to the Republic of Korea."
The later leader of the OSS, Colonel William J. Donovan, was the only senior leader in the US government to have personally visited Korea before the start of World War II. In June 1919, Donovan and his wife landed in Busan , and took a train up to Seoul .
The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, ending the war. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent.
Naotake SatÅ: wartime Japanese Ambassador to the Soviet Union; Kenkichi Yoshizawa: Official Japanese Ambassador in Beiping (until 1937) and French Indochina in 1940–1941; Yakichiro Suma: Japan's Ambassador in Spain; Morito Morishima: Japanese Ambassador in Portugal; Mamoru Shinozaki: Diplomat Officer, Japanese Embassy in British Malaya
World War II officially ended in Asia on September 2, 1945, with the surrender of Japan on the USS Missouri.Before that, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, and the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, causing Emperor Hirohito to announce the acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration on August 15, 1945, which would eventually lead to the surrender ceremony on September 2.
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), also known as the Tokyo Trial and the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, was a military trial convened on 29 April 1946 to try leaders of the Empire of Japan for their crimes against peace, conventional war crimes, and crimes against humanity, leading up to and during the Second World War. [1]
The army fought in China and Burma, and prepared for its return to Korea as the tide of World War II turned against Japan. [146] This culminated in the Eagle Project, a mission for the KPG and KLA to return to the peninsula and fight the Japanese.