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July 26 - Allies issue Potsdam Declaration; Japan refuses to agree to its terms. August 6 - Atomic bombing of Hiroshima. August 8 - Soviet Union declares war on Japan. August 9 - Atomic bombing of Nagasaki. [2] August 15 - Last Allied bombing of Japan takes place in Odawara and Tsuchizaki.
The Soviet Union declared itself to be in a state of war with Japan as of midnight August 9. [7] The Nuremberg Charter was issued, setting down the laws and procedures by which the Nuremberg Trials were to be conducted. The United States ratified the United Nations Charter. [14]
The bombing of Kumagaya (熊谷空襲, Kumagaya-kūshū) on 14 August 1945, was part of the strategic bombing campaign waged by the United States of America against military and civilian targets and population centers during the Japan home islands campaign in the closing stages of the Pacific War in 1945.
Kyoto Animation arson attack: 36 people were killed in one of the deadliest massacres in post-World War II history of Japan. 21 July: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won the House of Councillors election at the third time. 2 August: Japan announces the removal of South Korea from its list of most trusted trading partners, effective on 28 ...
As the Allies advanced towards Japan, conditions became steadily worse for the Japanese people. Japan's merchant fleet declined from 5,250,000 gross register tons in 1941 to 1,560,000 tons in March 1945, and 557,000 tons in August 1945. The lack of raw materials forced the Japanese war economy into a steep decline after the middle of 1944.
The Kyūjō incident (宮城事件, Kyūjō Jiken) was an attempted military coup d'état in the Empire of Japan at the end of the Second World War.It happened on the night of 14–15 August 1945, just before the announcement of Japan's surrender to the Allies.
Tsuchizaki air raid memorial. The bombing of Akita (秋田空襲, Akita-kūshū), also known as the Tsuchizaki Air Raid (土崎大空襲, Tsuchizaki-Dai-kūshū), on the night of August 14, 1945, was part of the strategic bombing air raids on Japan campaign waged by the United States against military and civilian targets and population centers during the Japan home islands campaign in the ...
The evacuation of Karafuto (Sakhalin) and the Chishima (Kuril) islands refers to the events that took place during the Pacific theater of World War II as the Japanese population left these areas, to August 1945 in the northwest of the main islands of Japan. The evacuation started under the threat of Soviet invasion.