The inside story of Japan's surrender in World War II, less than a week of infighting, the top level almost completely destroyed the army
World War II, also known as the Anti-Fascist War, was a war of aggression and expansion waged by some ambitious imperialism, and Japan was one of the three initiators. On September 2, 1945, aboard the U.S. battleship USS Missouri, Japanese Prime Minister Aoi Shigemitsu signed a instrument of surrender with Army Chief of Staff Mijiro Umezu on behalf of Emperor Hirohito. Things went well, and the results were good, but the process was thrilling, and before the formal announcement of surrender, Japan experienced half a month of infighting, and the main and party leaders were almost completely annihilated.
On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, and announced that Japan would drop a second if it could not sign the Butanz Agreement the following day. But Japan chose to resist, so on August 9, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. On the same day, the Soviet Union officially declared war on Japan, and immediately began to attack Sakhalin Island, and it was not long before the Japanese Kwantung Army defended the line and eliminated the main force in the Fujin area of Heilongjiang. China's Mao Zedong also issued a statement entitled "The Last War Against the Japanese Kou", and Zhu De issued hundreds of orders in a row in 18 hours, and if the Japanese army did not surrender again, it would carry out a major counteroffensive. Soon, the three armies of Jin, Lu and Yu combined to suppress the Japanese puppet army that refused to surrender, eliminate more than 100,000 enemy troops, and liberate Shanxi, Suiyuan and other places around the Yellow River.
At this time, under the auspices of Japanese Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki, a cabinet meeting was held at the top of the Japanese leadership, because an hour earlier, their emperor Hirohito had decided to surrender and asked for their opinions. The atmosphere of the meeting was very heavy, there was almost no noise, and the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, Ishiguro Nakatsuguro, held a 1,000 ml measuring cup in his hand and opened his mouth after tossing and turning. He first let everyone look at the measuring cup, and everyone was puzzled, and then poured a little grain into it.
1000 ml is equivalent to 1 liter, 1 liter in Japan is equivalent to 10 he, 1 is equivalent to ten spoons, because of the war, the people at that time had an average of two in 3 spoons per day to eat, equivalent to four or two. But if the war continues, the food supply will be reduced, the average person will have only 200 milliliters of food available a day, and half of the country will face starvation. Listening to Ishiguro's words, the conference room was even quieter, and it was still the prime minister at the time, Suzuki Kantaro, who said that he would agree to the emperor's proposal to surrender.
So they began to draw up the "Edict of the End of the War", but some fierce warriors could not accept the news after hearing the news, and tried their best to prevent the destruction, of which Kenji Hataka and Jiro Shizaki were the most important. After discussion, the two finally decided to go to the commander of the Eastern Army and the top commander of the Guards Division, hoping that they would persuade the emperor to give up surrender. But the two of them ran into a wall at the same time, and when Kenji Hataka braved the 40-degree heat to pedal his bicycle to the Hibiya Daiichi Life Hall in Tokyo, where the Eastern Army Headquarters was located, and saw the commander at the time, General Shizuka Tanaka, he was ordered to shut up before he could speak, needless to say, because he had already come to more than a dozen people with the same purpose as him before. In order to prevent these people from doing more drastic things in a hurry, Tanaka Shizuichi and his two lieutenants were all real guns and bullets, so Hataka Kenji could only stare at the three people with hatred and leave.
On the other hand, Jiro Shizaki was trying to persuade the head of the Japanese Guards Division, Mori, with a three-inch tongue, but he spoke dryly, but Mori was unwavering, and finally found several squadron leaders of the Guards Division, hoping that they could attack from the north and south of the Kangomon gate and the Jianli Gate that night, and attack the imperial palace to hold the emperor hostage, to see who dared to act rashly. But the imagination was beautiful, the Guards Division had to have the warrant of the division commander to act, and finally Jiro Shizaki and another military officer of the Japanese Army Provincial Military Affairs Bureau, Inahi Masataka, killed Mori and his staff aide-de-camp Shiraishi Tongjiao Nakasa, and then used their fingers to press their fingerprints on the prepared order.
By this time, the cabinet had already prepared and recorded the Edict of the End of the War for Emperor Hirohito, announcing that it would be broadcast at 12 noon tomorrow, and that the person in charge of keeping the recording was a palace guard named Tokugawa Yoshihiro, and Jiro Shizaki and his gang rushed into the palace, because they were not familiar with the terrain, and the room was too much to turn over. In the process, the commander of the Eastern Army, Shizuichi Tanaka, arrived, solved the rebels, and the recording was completely safe. Where did Tokugawa Yoshihiro hide it? The next day, a group of guards walked into the Empress's Office at the Tennō Palace in Japan, removed a table of fat powder, jewelry boxes, and various books and miscellaneous items, revealing a bag containing recordings of the Emperor of Japan, and two copies, one to shibuya's NHK radio room, and one to the underground director's studio at the Hibiya Daiichi Life Museum, just in case, and made two preparations, and broadcast it on time at 12:00 noon on August 15, 1945.
The night before that, Captain Takeo Sasaki of the Yokohama Guard Department led the so-called National Kamikaze, which was actually a mixed army of reserves and students, to besiege the Japanese Prime Minister's Pavilion with the purpose of killing the leader of the main and faction. But the door slammed shut, but there was no movement inside, and it took half a day for a cowering gatekeeper to say that the prime minister had already gone home. Takeo Sasaki was so angry that he had to burn the Prime Minister's Hall and pour oil around it, but he couldn't light it for half a day, and it turned out that they were holding non-flammable diesel.
Takeo Sasaki was a stubborn man who had to light the fire before he left, so Kantaro Suzuki escaped the disaster, and when they arrived at the Prime Minister's family, the bed was still hot. That night, the Privy Council's house was also on fire, but he escaped in advance. But don't think they were good people when they were striving for peace, but in fact they were also the main force in the war of aggression against China. For example, Suzuki Kantaro is not only the 42nd prime minister of Japan, but also the commander of the combined fleet of the navy, and he has been seen in all major naval battles, known as the "immortal ghost".
In the end, Japanese Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki, Minister of the Interior Koichi Kido, Privy Council Speaker Hiranuma Kiichiro and others were all listed as Class A war criminals at the Tokyo Trial, and together with the rebels who were killed in the previous turmoil and dealt with later, there were not a few left in the Japanese high-level, and there was a big change of blood directly. This chaos can also be regarded as a lesson for the Japanese high-level, ambition is not a bad thing, but to follow the right path, can not harm others and self-interest, otherwise it will eventually swallow the bitter fruit.