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The Last Bomb was a 1945 propaganda film mainly concerning the conventional phase of the bombing of Japan in 1945. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Japan's Longest Day (Japanese: 日本のいちばん長い日, Hepburn: Nippon no ichiban nagai hi) is a 1967 Japanese epic war film directed by Kihachi Okamoto.The subject of the majority of the movie is the period between noon on August 14, 1945, and noon on August 15, 1945, when Emperor Hirohito's decision to surrender to the Allies in World War II was broadcast to the Japanese people, and ...
After going over Hirohito's divinity and saying that his divine origins are shared by the Japanese people as a whole, the film then describes Shinto, a Japanese religion by saying that it had been a "quaint religion for a quaint people" until 1870 when a mad, fanatical, conquer-the-world doctrine, based on the commandment of Jimmu, the first ...
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 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.
1945: The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail: Akira Kurosawa: Susumu Fujita: Samurai film: Momotarō: Umi no Shinpei: Mitsuyo Seo: Propaganda Animation: Sanshiro Sugata Part II: Akira Kurosawa: Denjiro Okochi: Martial arts film: 1946: Aru yo no Tonosama: Teinosuke Kinugasa: A Descendant of Taro Urashima: Mikio Naruse: Susumu Fujita, Nobuo ...
The Japan campaign was a series of battles and engagements in and around the Japanese home islands, between Allied forces and the forces of Imperial Japan during the last stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II. The Japan campaign lasted from around June 1944 to August 1945.
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.