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Since 1873, the official Japanese New Year has been celebrated according to the Gregorian calendar, on January 1 of each year, New Year's Day (元日, Ganjitsu). Prior to 1872, traditional events of the Japanese New Year were celebrated on the first day of the year on the modern Tenpō calendar, the last official lunisolar calendar.
Camp John Hay was the first place in the Philippines bombed by Japan in World War II. At 8:19 a.m. on December 8, 1941 – December 7 on the Hawaii side of the International Date Line – seventeen Japanese bombers attacked Camp John Hay killing eleven soldiers, American and Filipino, and several civilians in the town of Baguio.
15 August is the official V-J Day for the United Kingdom, while the official US commemoration is 2 September. [2] The name, V-J Day, had been selected by the Allies after they named V-E Day for the victory in Europe. On 2 September 1945, formal surrender occurred aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
The official surrender ceremony was held on September 2. Total Japanese military fatalities between 1937 and 1945 were 2.1 million; most came in the last year of the war. Starvation or malnutrition-related illness accounted for roughly 80 percent of Japanese military deaths in the Philippines, and 50 percent of military fatalities in China.
September 2, 1945: World War II officially ends with the final terms of surrender signed by the Empire of Japan The following events occurred in September 1945 : September 1 , 1945 (Saturday)
Pages in category "1945 in Hawaii" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 23rd Hawaii Territorial Legislature
Fighting continued until Japan's formal surrender on 2 September 1945. The Philippines had suffered great loss of life and tremendous physical destruction by the time the war was over. An estimated 527,000 Filipinos, both military and civilians, had been killed from all causes; of these between 131,000 and 164,000 were killed in seventy-two war ...
September 2 - Japanese officials sign instrument of surrender on the deck of the USS Missouri. 24 September - Hirohito says that he did not want war and blames Tojo for the attack on Pearl Harbor; October 2 - Office of the Supreme Commander Allied Powers is established at the Dai-Ichi Seimei Building in Tokyo. October 5 - Higashikuni Cabinet ...