The picture shows stills of film and television works related to the Miyagi Incident
In 1945, the U.S. military dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, respectively, making Japan the first country to be bombed by nuclear bombs, which contributed to the final surrender of the Japanese army, but what many people do not know is that before the publication of the "Final War Edict", Japanese radical officers actually had a dying struggle, and on the eve of announcing unconditional surrender, the Japanese army actually surrounded the Imperial Palace. This is the Miyagi Incident, which almost changed the course of Japanese history.
Pictured here is Emperor Hirohito
In August 1945, Japan can be said to be completely in a desperate situation, the Soviet Union that has finished cleaning up Germany has freed its hands to declare war on Japan, the world's two most powerful powers are about to "serve" Japan together, Hiroshima and Nagasaki have become the first countries in human history to be bombed by nuclear bombs, in this situation, Hirohito finally realized one thing: if he does not surrender, he is afraid that he will end up with the same fate as mussolini and Hitler, the two Axis leaders.
So at noon on August 9, Hirohito decided to let then Prime Minister Suzuki Kantaro convene a supreme war guidance meeting to discuss matters related to surrender, just like the previous meetings, this time there are still huge differences, then Secretary of War Anan and other officials resolutely do not surrender, to use the so-called "one hundred million jade fragments" and the US military to fight to the end, and the prime minister hard bar to the end, the meeting was delayed until 11 pm, and finally directly into Hirohito's conference room, interestingly, Hirohito, who was supposed to preside over the meeting in name only at 2:30 a.m., reported to Hirohito that the Army was unwilling to surrender, and reported that the construction of local defense facilities had been stopped due to financial and other reasons.
The picture shows Japan signing the instrument of surrender
With the statement of the highest level, the next day at the meeting again, the participants except the Minister of War all agreed to surrender, in fact, anyone who still has a little sense of reason can see that at this stage, Japan's continued resistance has no meaning, just let the people die in vain, but on the 12th, after the news of the high-level choice to surrender was reported, the Japanese middle and lower classes, especially the military officers, felt unbelievable, and then a strange idea followed: In fact, Hirohito was still willing to resist. But being blinded by officials who are greedy and afraid of death will do so.
Driven by such ideas, these soldiers decided to do something big, and on the night of August 14, dozens of junior officers, represented by Hidemasa Koga and Masahiko Takeshita, decided to launch a "military advice", but this coup could basically be said to be a farce.
The picture shows the miyagi incident theme film and television
In order to achieve the goal, they divided into three ways to carry out different tasks, a group to encourage the Guards Division to participate in the military advice, the commander of this unit Mori Gui refused to cooperate, as a result of which they directly cut Mori To death and issued a false order for the troops to attack the Palace, and the other way to assassinate the representatives of the surrender faction, but the Prime Minister who smelled the wrong atmosphere had already smeared oil on the soles of his feet, so he was not killed, so these people could only return in vain, and the most tragic was a group of people who broke into the Palace with the Guards Division. Although the task is simple: only to find a recorded recording of the surrender edict can prevent the country from announcing its surrender, after all, there are many rooms in the palace, and this group of people has never found the recording, and the result is that they are suppressed one by one, and this coup that may change the direction of history has become a complete farce together with Japan's ambitions.