On September 18, 1931, the September 18 Incident occurred, and from this year on, China waged a 14-year war of resistance. Until August 15, 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender to the Allies, but in fact, the unconditional surrender here was not a real unconditional surrender, and there were three shameless conditions.
In October 1929, affected by the economic crisis in the United States, Japan was hit hard and completely embarked on the road of invading China. The rest of the world was in a wait-and-see attitude, so in 1931 Japan launched the September 18 Incident as a pretext for occupying northeast China. Soon after, he provoked trouble in Shanghai and other places, and on July 7, 1937, he provoked the Lugou Bridge Incident again, and at this point, the anti-Japanese front was united in an all-round way.
After that, the Chinese military and civilians experienced an 8-year war of resistance, and they had no advantage in the early stage, but they strengthened the determination of the Chinese nation to resist Japan. The Battle of Wuhan, which broke out from August to October 1938, lasted for more than four months, with the Chinese army investing more than 1.1 million people and the Japanese army investing more than 300,000 people. Although the Chinese army suffered heavy casualties in this battle, the War of Resistance Against Japan entered a stalemate stage. Later, the Japanese army not only fought in China, but also sent a part of the army to sneak attack Pearl Harbor, and the Pacific War broke out with the United States.
In July 1943, the Chinese army entered the counter-offensive phase, and in September, shortly after the counter-offensive began, Italy, one of the three fascist powers, took the lead in surrendering. The Japanese were too dispersed and forced to tighten the front. In May 1944, the Chinese Expeditionary Force forcibly crossed the Nu River and launched a counter-offensive to reclaim the lost land in the southwest defended by the Japanese army, and Japan began to lose in China. Germany on the other side announced its unconditional surrender, and soon on August 15 the Emperor of Japan announced its unconditional surrender. But in fact, this is not unconditional surrender at all, unconditional generally means that one side of the armed forces gives everything to the party that accepts surrender, and there are all the conditions for the defeated country to accept the victorious country.
The first condition put forward by Japan was to retain the emperor system, and the Japanese emperor was extremely authoritative in the Japanese people. It is often seen on TV dramas that say that the emperor is fighting for the emperor, but the real emperor may not only take into account the people's feelings, but may be more of an intervention by the US military. Not only was the emperor left behind, but the imperial family was also given preferential treatment, such as the culprit of the Nanjing Massacre, King Hatohiko of Asaka Palace. He was eventually spared trial because he was the emperor's uncle. But in fact, the emperor was the leader of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and he himself shamelessly did not commit suicide by caesarean section.
The second condition is that the war criminals dispose of themselves, but what should the Far Eastern Military Tribunal do if the war criminals dispose of themselves? In the end, some of them were sentenced to death in court-martial, and the remaining cases were not serious enough for these people to be brought back by the Japanese. And some of these Class-A war criminals who were disposed of were enshrined at the Yasukuni Shrine afterwards, and there was no sincerity at that time, and it is no wonder that they do not admit their original crimes now.
The third condition is that many countries are not allowed to be stationed in Japan, and in the end only U.S. troops are stationed in Japan. This is because Germany had been divided after the surrender, and later it was directly divided into East and West Germany, and contradictions broke out frequently. Japan avoids the entry of other countries into Japan at the same time because it does not want to be divided, although these countries do not agree, but with the intervention of the US military, it was basically implemented in the end.