In 1945, the Allies defeated the Axis Powers and won a complete victory in World War II, and after the surrender of Germany, Japan weighed the pros and cons, and Emperor Hirohito made the japanese people hear the so-called "crane sound" through the radio, and also heard the news of Japan's unconditional surrender.
MacArthur, commander-in-chief of the Far ASEAN Forces, led representatives of the victorious powers to accept Japan's surrender aboard the U.S. ship Missouri, but few people knew that MacArthur had entered Japanese soil before the most important ceremony in modern history.
At 2:50 p.m. on August 30, 1945, the plane of General MacArthur, commander-in-chief of the Far ASEAN Army, landed at the Atsugi Base in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, and MacArthur walked out of the cabin with sunglasses and a pipe, leaving a historic shot. In fact, MacArthur had rehearsed in advance, he wanted to leave his most handsome posture to the world, the cameraman was also a professional, and he got off the plane in advance to set the angle, just to shoot the general's most handsome posture.
MacArthur was followed by 400,000 U.S. troops who were preparing to fight against the Japanese homeland, and these American soldiers entered Japanese soil in batches to integrate with the defeated Japanese society.
In view of the long-term brainwashing of Japanese soldiers by militaristic ideology, the US military, in addition to using materials to win over the Japanese people, also held several large military parades in Tokyo City, with the purpose of using military parades to completely intimidate the remnants of Japanese militarism and to exert pressure on those high-level Japanese war criminals who were about to undergo the winter trial.
In April 1946, the anniversary of the United States Army, the U.S. military held the largest military parade since the occupation of Japanese territory in front of the United Nations General Headquarters in Hibiya, Tokyo, the photo below shows the mechanized unit of the First Cavalry Division of the U.S. Eighth Army driving majestically through the street, imposing, because the imperial army that once thought it was invincible was defeated under the U.S. army, so the citizens of Tokyo were curious about the weapons and equipment of the occupying forces and flocked to the streets to watch.
Many Japanese veterans who participated in the Pacific War were completely shocked when they saw the real power of the US military, they originally thought that Japan's weapons and equipment were already the most advanced in the world, until they saw the equipment of the US military, they realized that defeat was inevitable, even without those two atomic bombs, Japan would definitely not be able to defeat the United States. They don't understand why Americans are so rich, and a barren island nation to provoke a fat and oily country is not looking for their own death?
Through this military parade, the remnants of Japanese militarism no longer dared to be the slightest bit unconvinced, and they completely obeyed, but they only obeyed the Americans and still obeyed other countries.
As the supreme commander of the occupying forces, MacArthur stayed in Japan for more than five years, leaving a peaceful constitution for Japan, liberating the peasants, and promoting a series of democratization reforms.