Surrender and Occupation of Japan (Archive, World War 2, Original Footage, Japan World War)
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One of the best documentaries I have ever seen. I grew up during this era and yet have learned so much. Thank you for a job well done.
My father was in the Occupation Troops of the New Zealand Army after peace was declared. There until 1946. His snapshots are a piece of history.
Ditto my dad who served on the USS Santa Fe in the Pacific in WW 2, and he was in the occupation force, too. He got a nice samurai sword that we still have, in our family.
I've watched a zillion ww2 documentaries . Never this one. Thanks to the uploader.
Crusade in the Pacific, on KZhead
Unit 731 not being prosecuted in any way was utterly unforgivable!
I believe this the documentary “Crusade in the Pacific” @1950
Ah, Dugout Doug. The Marine Corps remembers him well.
Cool documentary, I'm glad that modern dentistry also came to Japan. I mean did you check out the emperor's grill?
Thank you! I've always been amazed at how the Japanese adopted Western wear, decades before the occupation, resulting in the Japanese representatives wearing top hats, still in good enough condition to wear. And tails.
39 seats in the Diet? I'll bet a fair number of men choked on that. You have to give the Japanese credit for how fast they rebuilt their cities. Compare photos of fall 1945 and mid 1950. 9 years post war, Godzilla romped through a completely rebuilt Tokyo. 😀
If you do not want to surrender do not star a war !
Wrong. Japan was occupied by two powers; Australia had a third of the country and America the rest. Australia also led the war crimes trials its constitution is the framework for the Japanese constitution.
How humiliating...
Money and 400000 dead
American democracy, great , unless you’re a black in Mississippi.
Who funded the brits and china we did
You charged Britain for the so called aid and we only finished paying you back 20 years ago. Also you took the British Naval bases in the Pacific so with friends like you other nations need deep pockets
Sorry I am to hear AMERICA won the WAR OVER JAPAN. " WITHOUT THE ALLIES. AMERICA WOULD NOT OF ACHEIVED PEACE. IT IS TO ALL ALIES OF WW11 THAT PEACE WAS ACHEIVED. WE MUST NOT FORGET SO MANY NATIONS SACRIFICED FOR PEACE.". LEST WE FORGET.
Yeah, we did.
The British were heavily involved in Burma and the Indian Ocean. The Pacific War was between Imperial Japan against the United States with Australian participation.
Well, let's look at the facts. WWII started with 4 axis powers: Japan, Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union. Yes, during the first 1/3 of the European war (1939-1941) the Soviet Union and Germany were allied: carving up the portions of Eastern Europe that lay between them. And, during the entire Pacific war, the Soviets were allied with Japan through a so-called non-aggression pact. The Soviets imprisoned American Airmen for emergency landing in the Soviet Union after bombing raids on Japan (e.g. Doolittle raid). After Hiroshima, the Soviets quickly declared war on Japan to act like a jackal to steal some territorial scraps from America and UK's kill. But Soviet Invasion of Japan was not even possible: they had neither their air power nor sea power no amphibious naval power to effect landings. The Soviet military was a land-based force: it fought one enemy (Germany), on one front (Eastern), in one dimension (Land). Now, the American, British and UK commonwealth countries (Canada, India, Australia, NZ, etc.) did indeed fight and win WWII. 3 enemies: Japan, Germany, Italy, on hundreds of fronts from the Arctic to the Equator to the South Pacific, in the air, on the sea, below the sea, and on land. In spite of the Soviets giving Japan a backstop to its northern and western flanks! There was indeed massive sacrifice and heroism by UK and Commonwealth countries. India, for example: Sadly Japanese ate... YES ATE! Their Indian POWS (look up the documentary on KZhead). UK forces fought in the jungles and on the seas, while the Americans lead the vast majority of navel battles, Island hopping, and totally dominated the skies with its air forces. Not to mention the A-Bombs which decisively ended the war in total surrender within a week. No one who understands the war would say the British and Commonwealth wasn't instrumental in winning the war: both in Europe and Asia. In fact, when Britain was standing alone, Churchill's ordering of the sinking of the French Fleet at MERS-EL-KEBIR (which was likely to fall into German hands), was the impetus for the USA to finally get into the fight, realizing that they had an unsinkable aircraft carrier 26 miles off the coast of Continental Europe! Not to mention Churchill inspiring the world to stand up and defeat the evil enemies of the Axis. The UK and Commonwealth forces were the best allies the USA has ever had!
@@jeffyoung60the British along with Indian forces were heavily involved in fighting Japan. Hong Kong and Singapore were British strongholds. Even the Dutch and Russians fought the Japanese. The Chinese lost millions fighting the Japanese prior to Pearl Harbor. Had China completely collapsed Japan would have been able to move millions of more troops against the Americans.
@@sandovalperry2895 Of course I'm not diminishing Britain's participation. I'm referring to, "The Pacific War", in definition. That colossal struggle started at Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and progressively moved westward across the Central Pacific and South Pacific. The conflict involved the military forces of Imperial Japan versus those of the United States and Australia. The British entered the Pacific War with the deployment in very late 1944 with its new British Pacific Fleet, a force of 4 armored carriers, 1 battleship, and assortment of cruisers and destroyers. The British Pacific Fleet joined combat in April 1945 serving alongside the American Fifth and Third Fleets in the invasion of Okinawa. The powerful British Pacific Fleet was a short-lived naval formation, being decommissioned not long after the end of WW2 as the British Government simply could not afford to keep it.
Allies gave 5 percent america gave all
Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back. Your country didn't have it's cities bombed flat, or occupied. Your industries never suffered a saturation bombing. And they made a lot of money supplying the allies who were fighting for two years before you got dragged into it. America did a lot to sustain the allies and finish the war, but don't think it wasn't a major effort by the other allies.
Bulldust. Australia gave more to America than it received.
Oh, please. Your extreme bias is more than showing. It was a team effort. You know, ALLIES.