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In South Asia, Japan's role is mainly that of an aid donor. [172] Japan's aid to seven South Asian countries totaled US$1.1 billion in 1988. [172] [needs update] Except for Pakistan, which received heavy inputs of aid from the United States, all other South Asian countries received most of their aid from Japan as of the early 1990s.
The only course left is for Japan's one hundred million people to sacrifice their lives by charging the enemy to make them lose the will to fight. [ 9 ] As a final attempt to stop the Allied advances, the Japanese Imperial High Command planned an all-out defense of Kyūshū codenamed Operation Ketsugō . [ 10 ]
Japan is a middle power and a member of numerous international organizations, including the United Nations (since 1956), the OECD, and the Group of Seven. [1] Although it has renounced its right to declare war, the country maintains Self-Defense Forces that rank as one of the world's strongest militaries.
The Hirohito surrender broadcast, occasionally mistranslated as Jewel Voice Broadcast (Japanese: 玉音放送, romanized: Gyokuon-hōsō, lit. 'Broadcast of the Emperor's Voice'), was a radio broadcast of surrender given by Hirohito, the emperor of Japan, on August 15, 1945.
Views toward Japan are especially negative – 69% have an unfavorable opinion of Japan, and a significant number of Chinese (38%) consider Japan an enemy. Opinions of the United States also tend to be negative, and 34% describe the U.S. as an enemy, while just 13% say it is a partner of China.
The Yamaguchi-gumi had two known oyabuns in Earth-616: Maikeru Mishu (who was responsible for trying to steal and control the Shogun Warriors) and Shinji Kizaki (who became Wolverine's enemy after he defeated one of Kizaki's mercenaries and even insulted him before leaving Japan).
Japan's delay in clearing more than 700,000 (according to the Japanese Government [11]) pieces of life-threatening and environment contaminating chemical weapons buried in China at the end of World War II is another cause of anti-Japanese sentiment. [citation needed] Periodically, individuals within Japan spur external criticism.
As the tide of war turned against Japan and after it was defeated at the Battle of Saipan, Tojo resigned as prime minister and chief of staff in July 1944. After Japan's surrender, he was arrested in September 1945 (during which he made a suicide attempt), convicted at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, and hanged in 1948.