Japan
- Shigeru Yoshida was born in Kanda Surugadai, Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Shigeru Yoshida | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
Japan
- Yoshitsugu Saito was born in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Yoshitsugu Saito | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
- Haruki Isayama graduated from the Japanese Army Academy in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Haruki Isayama | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Prince Takahito was born in the Imperial Palace at Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Imperial Palace Complex | Takahito | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Masaichi Niimi graduated from the Japanese Naval War College in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Masaichi Niimi | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Nobutake Kondo was named an aide to Crown Prince Hirohito at Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Nobutake Kondo | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Haruki Isayama graduated from the Japanese Army War College in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Haruki Isayama | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Chiaki Matsuda entered the Naval War College in Kamiosaki, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Chiaki Matsuda | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Hiroshi Nemoto was attached to the Army Ministry in Tokyo, Japan and was placed in charge with China affairs. ww2dbase [Hiroshi Nemoto | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Chiaki Matsuda graudated from the Naval War College in Kamiosaki, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Chiaki Matsuda | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Chiaki Matsuda was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander and was assigned to the Bureau of Personnel in the Navy Ministry. ww2dbase [Chiaki Matsuda | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Joseph Rochefort reported in to the United States Embassy in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Joseph Rochefort | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Joseph Rochefort's second child, Janet Fay Rochefort, was born in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Joseph Rochefort | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- The first flight from the newly completed Haneda Airfield in Japan took off, carrying cargo to Dairen, Kwantung Leased Territory (now Dalian, Liaoning Province, China). ww2dbase [Haneda Airfield | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Chiaki Matsuda was assigned to the first division of the Naval General Staff. ww2dbase [Chiaki Matsuda | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
Japan
- Joseph Rochefort received the order to detach from the United States Embassy, effective 4 Oct 1932. ww2dbase [Joseph Rochefort | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Paul Wenneker began serving as a naval attaché at the German embassy in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Paul Wenneker | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Chiaki Matsuda was appointed to the Army General Staff as a naval liaison officer. ww2dbase [Chiaki Matsuda | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Korechika Anami was made the Commandant of the Tokyo Military Preparatory School in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Korechika Anami | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Chiaki Matsuda was assigned to the second division of the Naval General Staff. ww2dbase [Chiaki Matsuda | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Zang Shiyi visited Emperor Showa in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Zang Shiyi | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Chiaki Matsuda was made a faculty member at the Naval War College in Kamiosaki, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Chiaki Matsuda | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Paul Wenneker stepped down as a naval attaché at the German embassy in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Paul Wenneker | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
Japan
- Koo Hsien-Jung passed away in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Koo Hsien-Jung | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Hiroshi Nemoto was attached to the Army Chief of Staff in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Hiroshi Nemoto | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Paul Wenneker began serving as a naval attaché at the German embassy in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Paul Wenneker | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Hideki Tojo was appointed the Army Minister in Japanese Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe's new cabinet. ww2dbase [Hideki Tojo | Tokyo | CPC]
- Prince Fumimaro Konoe became the 38th Prime Minister of Japan. This was his second time in this office. ww2dbase [Fumimaro Konoe | Tokyo | CPC]

Japan
- Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka asked French Ambassador to Tokyo Arsène Henry whether Japanese troops might be allowed to enter Indochina to occupy certain airfields; Henry implied that his government would reject such a request. Meanwhile, Japanese Army aircraft were transferred from Northern China to Southern China. ww2dbase [Indochina Campaign | Tokyo | CPC]
- Haruki Isayama stepped down as the commanding officer of the 11th Depot Regiment and was attached to the Japanese Army War College in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. On the same date, he was promoted to the rank of major general. ww2dbase [Haruki Isayama | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Lord Halifax of the United Kingdom and US Ambassador to Tokyo Joseph Grew voiced concerns over Japanese demands for French Indochina. ww2dbase [Indochina Campaign | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- French Ambassador to Tokyo Arsène Henry announced to the Japanese that the French government would allow 6,000 Japanese troops to station in Indochina and would allow the military use of ports, airfields, and railroads in the region. However, the French government attempted to delay on the implementation of the plan as long as they could. ww2dbase [Indochina Campaign | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
Japan
- A peace treaty was signed between Thailand and France in Tokyo, Japan, officially ending the Franco-Thai War; the French was coerced by the Japanese to relinquish their hold on the disputed border territories. ww2dbase [Franco-Thai War | Tokyo | CPC, AC]
Japan
- Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a reporter in the German Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, informed Moscow that the Germans planned to invade in late June. Joseph Stalin, as he had done in so many other reports by his agents, still refused to believe this important intelligence. ww2dbase [Operation Barbarossa | Tokyo | AC]
Japan
Japan
Japan
- Japanese Navy Destroyer Division 7 sailed from Tokyo, Japan sailed for Midway, soon to join the rest of the Midway Neutralization Unit. ww2dbase [Tokyo | CPC]
- At an Imperial Conference held in Tokyo, Japan, the decision was taken to go to war with the United States. According to Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, Emperor Showa, the country's devine ruler, did not utter a single word in response. ww2dbase [Showa | Tokyo | AC]
Japan
Japan
- American submarine USS Thresher provided a weather report on Tokyo, Japan for the Doolittle Raiders. ww2dbase [Doolittle Raid | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Isoroku Yamamoto was granted audience with Emperor Showa, who congratulated him on the success in the Battle of Coral Sea. Knowing that the tactical victory was not as glorious as it appeared, Yamamoto was notedly ambiguous on his responses to the emperor. ww2dbase [Isoroku Yamamoto | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- The Japanese Imperial General Headquarters issued the Great Army Instruction No. 1 for a study on the possibility of an over-land invasion of Port Moresby, Australian Papua. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 2 | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Nobuo Fujita was summoned to the Navy Ministry at Kasumigaseki, Tokyo, Japan, where he would be personally ordered by Prince Nobuhito of Takamatsu to bomb a major target in the United States using a submarine-borne attack aircraft. ww2dbase [Nobuo Fujita | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- The Japanese Imperial General Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan issued the Joint Army-Navy Central Agreement on Southeast Asia Operation order, which was largely a defensive plan with the only offensive element being the re-establishment of air superiority over Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. ww2dbase [Guadalcanal Campaign | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- The Japanese Army and Navy staffs in Tokyo, Japan issued a new directive for operations in the Rabaul area, emphasizing the importance of the defense of New Guinea. ww2dbase [New Guinea-Papua Campaign, Phase 2 | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu wrote to Baron Hiroshi Oshima in Berlin, Germany, urging the ambassador to exert his influence with the Nazi leadership to encourage Germany to make a separate peace with the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [Mamoru Shigemitsu | Tokyo | AC]
Japan
- Subhash Chandra Bose arrived in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Subhash Chandra Bose | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- In Tokyo, Japan, Emperor Showa made a rare address about an individual regarding the loss of Isoroku Yamamoto. ww2dbase [Operation Vengeance | Isoroku Yamamoto | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- A full state funeral was given for Isoroku Yamamoto. The funeral procession slowly moved from Tokyo, Japan to Hibiya Park in nearby city of Chiyoda. At 1050 hours, many Japanese citizens across the entire country bowed their heads toward Tokyo in honor of Yamamoto. During the ceremony, Hideki Tojo made an address regarding Yamamoto's contributions to Japan, while Yamamoto was posthumously promoted to the rank of fleet admiral (or, literally, naval marshal) and was given the Order of the Chrysanthemum 1st Class and the German Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. ww2dbase [Operation Vengeance | Isoroku Yamamoto | Tokyo | CPC]


Japan
- American B-29 bombers attacked the Nakajima factory outside Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | Tokyo | TH]
Japan
Japan
Japan
- The first B-29 bombing raid against Tokyo, Japan from Tinian in the Mariana Islands took place; 88 American aircraft participated in this mission. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Tatsunosuke Ariizumi arrived at Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Tatsunosuke Ariizumi | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- 62 American B-29 bombers based in the Mariana Islands struck Tokyo, Japan. Japanese fighters shot down 5 bombers, while 4 others received damage and had to ditch or crash land. B-29 gunner claimed 60 fighters shot down. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | Tokyo | CPC]

Japan
- Air Group 80 flew 6 strikes against Tokyo, Japan as part of the first carrier-borne air attack on Japan since the Doolittle Raid 3 years earlier; 3 men and 3 aircraft from Air Group 80 were lost. ww2dbase [Albert O. Vorse, Jr. | Hancock | Tokyo | DS]
- USS Yorktown (Essex-class) and TF58 strike the Tokyo area of Honshu, Japan in the first carrier-borne air strikes against the Japanese home islands since the Doolittle Raid on 18 Apr 1942. ww2dbase [Battle of Iwo Jima | Yorktown (Essex-class) | Tokyo | DS]
Japan
- Air Group 80 aircraft from USS Hancock flew 2 strikes against Tokyo, Japan; no men and no aircraft were lost. ww2dbase [Hancock | Tokyo | DS]
- USS Yorktown (Essex-class) and TF58 strike the Tokyo area of Honshu, Japan before heading toward the Bonin Islands. ww2dbase [Battle of Iwo Jima | Yorktown (Essex-class) | Tokyo | DS]
Japan
- 119 American B-29 bombers attacked the port and urban areas of Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- USS Wasp's aircraft attacked targets in the Tokyo, Japan area. ww2dbase [Wasp (Essex-class) | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- During the night of 24-25 Feb, 174 American B-29 bombers dropped incendiary bombs on Tokyo, Japan and destroyed about 3 square kilometers of the city, or about 28,000 buildings. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Fighter quadron VF-80 from USS Hancock flew one fighter sweep against Tokyo, Japan; no aircraft were lost. ww2dbase [Hancock | Tokyo | DS]
- USS Yorktown (Essex-class) launched raids to bomb and strafe airfields in the vicinity of Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Battle of Iwo Jima | Yorktown (Essex-class) | Tokyo | DS]
Japan
- 159 American B-29 bombers attacked the urban areas of Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Operation Meetinghouse: After sundown and into the early hours of 10 Mar, 279 American B-29 bombers dropped incendiary bombs on Tokyo, Japan and destroyed 267,000 buildings and homes or 41 square kilometers of the city. Americans estimated 88,000 killed, 41,000 injured, and 1,000,000 displaced. Tokyo Fire Department estimated 97,000 killed and 125,000 wounded. Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department estimated 124,711 casualties and 286,358 destroyed buildings and homes. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- 68 American B-29 bombers attacked the Koizuimi aircraft factory and the urban areas of Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- 101 American B-29 bombers attacked the Nakajima aircraft factory near Tokyo, Japan; this was the first B-29 mission to be escorted by P-51 fighters from Iwo Jima. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | Tokyo | CPC]
- Korechika Anami was made the Army Minister under Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki. ww2dbase [Korechika Anami | Tokyo | CPC]

Japan
- More than 300 American B-29 bombers attacked various targets in and near Tokyo, Japan. The smaller of the two cyclotrons at the Riken Institute was destroyed. ww2dbase [Operation Trinity and Manhattan Project | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- In Japan, 464 American B-29 bombers attacked the urban areas of Tokyo, Japan south of the Imperial Palace. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | Imperial Palace Complex | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- 525 American B-29 bombers conducted a raid on Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Aircraft of US Navy Task Force 58 attacked airfields in southern Kyushu, Japan while 520 US Army B-29 bombers attacked urban and industrial areas south of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Many buildings on the grounds of the Imperial Palace complex were destroyed. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- 464 American B-29 bombers conducted a raid on Tokyo, Japan. 26 aircraft were lost, which was the highest one-day loss. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- American B-25 bombers from Okinawa conducted a raid on Tokyo, Japan, while 454 B-29 bombers (escorted by 101 P-51 fighters) firebombed Yokohama, Japan. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- The US Army Air Forces launched the first of several 1,000-bomber raids against the Japanese home islands. Meanwhile, US Navy aircraft from Essex-class carriers USS Yorktown and USS Shangri-La launched air strikes on the Tokyo area. ww2dbase [Preparations for Invasion of Japan | Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | Yorktown (Essex-class) | Shangri-La | Tokyo | TH]
Japan
- Lieutenant William Bell Asbridge, Corsair fighter pilot stationed flying from HMS Formidable, was shot down and killed in action near Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Formidable | Tokyo | CPC]
- USS Yorktown (Essex-class) launched raids on the Tokyo area. ww2dbase [Tokyo | DS]
Japan
- HMS Indefatigable joined UK Task Force 37 and US Task Force 38.2 for an attack on the Japanese home islands. On the same day, an US Army B-29 bomber failed to attack the Imperial Palace in Tokyo with a large "Pumpkin" bomb. ww2dbase [Preparations for Invasion of Japan | Imperial Palace Complex | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- USS Yorktown (Essex-class) launched raids on the Tokyo area. ww2dbase [Preparations for Invasion of Japan | Yorktown (Essex-class) | Tokyo | DS]
Japan
- 100 American fighters based in Iwo Jima, Japan attacked targets Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- About 60 American B-29 bombers attacked aircraft factories and arsenals near Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- 70 US Army Air Forces B-29 bombers attacked the arsenal complex near Tokyo, Japan while US Navy carrier aircraft from USS Ticonderoga (Air Group 87), USS Shangri-La, and USS Yorktown struck targets on the islands of Hokkaido and Honshu. ww2dbase [Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities | Yorktown (Essex-class) | Ticonderoga | Shangri-La | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Emperor Showa ordered his government to surrender. ww2dbase [Japan's Surrender | Showa | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Carrier aircraft from USS Ticonderoga (Air Group 87), USS Yorktown, and USS Shangri-La struck Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Preparations for Invasion of Japan | Yorktown (Essex-class) | Ticonderoga | Shangri-La | Tokyo | DS]
Japan
- Air Group 87 aircraft from USS Ticonderoga struck Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Ticonderoga | Tokyo | DS]
- Korechika Anami practiced kendo for the entire afternoon while he considered the war situation. ww2dbase [Korechika Anami | Tokyo | CPC]


Japan
- Seafire aircraft of 887 and 894 Naval Air Squadrons of the British Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm downed seven A6M5 Zero fighters at the cost of one Seafire fighter. Meanwhile, carrier aircraft from USS Ticonderoga (Air Group 87) and USS Shangri-La were launched for a strike on Tokyo, Japan, but the mission was aborted while en route due to the Japanese willingness to capitulate. USS Yorktown (Essex-class) cancelled all strikes planned for this day. ww2dbase [Preparations for Invasion of Japan | Yorktown (Essex-class) | Ticonderoga | Shangri-La | Tokyo | DS]
- Emperor Showa addressed his nation via radio, announcing the end of the war. Meanwhile, the Japanese government informed the Allies its willingness to meet the unconditional surrender terms. In response, the US government ordered all hostilities to cease in Asia. A group of Japanese Army officers made a coup d'état attempt by attacking the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan; it ended in failure. ww2dbase [Japan's Surrender | Imperial Palace Complex | Tokyo | TH]
- Korechika Anami, as the Army Minister, signed an official document of surrender. He then committed ritual suicide in Kojimachi (now Chiyoda), Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Korechika Anami | Tokyo | CPC]



Japan
- The last air conflict of WW2 took place over Tokyo, Japan. Two US reconnaissance aircraft were attacked by fighters and flak. One American crewman was killed and two fighters were shot down. ww2dbase [Tokyo | AC]
- The Japanese Home Ministry secretly sent radio messages to local police chiefs, ordering them to organize comfort women facilities for incoming US occupation troops as an attempt to safeguard Japanese women. On this topic, Prince Fumimaro Konoe told the national police commissioner "Please defend the young women of Japan". ww2dbase [Fumimaro Konoe | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
Japan
- By this date, 1,360 women from Tokyo, Japan had signed up to become comfort women for incoming US occupation troops. Such "Recreation and Amusement Association" houses would be allowed (or, welcomed) by the occupation authority until Jan 1946 when it was realized that 70% of the women were tested positive of syphilis and 50% positive of gonorrhea. Large stocks of penicillin would be imported into Japan in Apr 1946 to combat this man-made epidemic among comfort women and US troops. ww2dbase [Tokyo | CPC]

Japan
- In Japan, an advance guard of 150 US airborne troops landed at Atsuki airfield outside Tokyo; they were the first Allied troops to set foot on the Japanese mainland. ww2dbase [Japan's Surrender | Tokyo | AC]
Japan
- US troops made an administrative landing near Tokyo, Japan, starting the occupation. ww2dbase [Japan's Surrender | Tokyo | TH]
- Gregory Boyington was liberated from the Omori Prison Camp in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Around 1,000 Allied prisoners of war from camps in the Tokyo, Japan area were transferred to hospital ships offshore. ww2dbase [Japan's Surrender | Tokyo | AC]
- MacArthur established the Supreme Allied Command in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Douglas MacArthur | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Japan signed the surrender document aboard USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, Japan. Later on the same day, the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters issued General Order No. 1 written by US Joint Chiefs of Staff, which instructed Japanese forces on matters of surrender. ww2dbase [Japan's Surrender | Missouri | Tokyo | TH, CPC]
- Conrad Helfrich signed the Japanese instrument of surrender aboard USS Missouri aboard Tokyo Bay in Japan on behalf of the Netherlands. ww2dbase [Japan's Surrender | Conrad Helfrich | Tokyo | CPC]




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Japan
- Subhash Chandra Bose's ashes were brought to Tokyo, Japan by Lieutenant Tatsuo Hayashida. ww2dbase [Subhash Chandra Bose | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- General Douglas MacArthur arrived in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Japan's Surrender | Douglas MacArthur | Tokyo | TH]
- Former Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo failed in his suicide attempt at Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Hideki Tojo | Tokyo | CPC]
- Rama Murti, president of the Tokyo Indian Independence League, received Subhash Chandra Bose's ashes in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Subhash Chandra Bose | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- The Allied occupation administration in Tokyo, Japan announced 39 war criminals and ordered their arrests. ww2dbase [Tokyo Trial and Other Trials Against Japan | Tokyo | CPC]

Japan
- Hajime Sugiyama committed suicide by shooting himself four times in the chest with a revolver in his office in Tokyo, Japan. His wife also killed herself. ww2dbase [Hajime Sugiyama | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- US forces took control of Haneda Airfield in Tokyo, Japan and was renamed it Haneda Army Air Base. ww2dbase [Haneda Airfield | Tokyo | CPC]
- Chikahiko Koizumi committed ritual suicide in Yodobashi Ward, Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Chikahiko Koizumi | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- A memorial for Subhash Chandra Bose was held in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Subhash Chandra Bose | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- USS Yorktown (Essex-class) entered Tokyo Bay with TG 38.1. ww2dbase [Yorktown (Essex-class) | Tokyo | DS]
Japan
- Douglas MacArthur established his headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Douglas MacArthur | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Emperor Showa made a formal visit to the US Embassy to meet General Douglas MacArthur. This was one of ten such visits the Japanese head of state would make. ww2dbase [Douglas MacArthur | Tokyo | CPC]


Japan
- Carriers USS Shangri-La, USS Hancock, USS Yorktown (Essex-class), USS Cowpens and cruisers USS Topeka, USS Duluth, and USS Oakland with a destroyer escort that included USS Nicholas departed Tokyo Bay, Japan bound for Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands. ww2dbase [Yorktown (Essex-class) | Cowpens | Hancock | Shangri-La | Nicholas | Tokyo | DS]
Japan
- At at a meeting between the Japanese cabinet and the Allied General Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, Douglas MacArthur ordered the Japanese government to reconsider the Emperor's status, to release political prisoners, to disband the Special Police, and to repeal repressive laws. At the end of the meeting, Fumimaro Konoe asked MacArthur if the American general had thoughts on the the "constitution" (ie. the make-up) of the new Japanese government under Allied occupation. Imprecise translations at the meeting led Konoe to believe that MacArthur wished the Japanese "Constitution" (ie. the Meiji Constitution) to be reviewed and revised. ww2dbase [Douglas MacArthur | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni resigned as the Prime Minister of Japan after a dispute between his government and the US occupation about the repeal of the 1925 Public Security Preservation Laws, which the Americans viewed as repressive. Kijuro Shidehara would be made the next Prime Minister on the same day. ww2dbase [Naruhiko | Tokyo | CPC]


Japan
- Japanese communist leaders Kyuichi Tokuda and Yoshio Shiga were freed after spending 18 years in Fuchu Prison in Tokyo, Japan. Before they were allowed outside the prison gate, they briefed the Allied General Headquarters on the party's plans in post war Japan. ww2dbase [Fuchu Prison | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Japanese Prime Minister Kijuro Shidehara called for an extraordinary cabinet meeting to discuss constitutional revision. The meeting resulted in the decision to form a Constitutional Problems Investigation Committee headed by Joji Matsumoto. This committee would work independent of the constitution revision efforts headed by Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal Fumimaro Konoe. ww2dbase [Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- The Constitutional Problems Investigations Committee was given exclusive authority over issues regarding the revision of the Japanese Constitution. ww2dbase [Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Douglas MacArthur officially announced the disbanding of the 17 Japanese zaibatsu vertical monopolies. ww2dbase [Douglas MacArthur | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Chiaki Matsuda was interrogated by Lieutenant Commander J. A. Field, Jr. in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Chiaki Matsuda | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- General Douglas MacArthur established the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo, Japan to try Japanese war criminals. ww2dbase [Tokyo Trial and Other Trials Against Japan | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- The Government Section of the Allied General Headquarters in Japan officially began the drafting of a new Japanese Constitution, shortly after it had rejected a Japanese proposal. ww2dbase [Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- The Allied General Headquarters presented the Japanese government the draft of a new Constitution. This draft was heavily influenced by the earlier works by the Constitutional Research Association led by Iwasaburo Takano and Yasuzo Suzuki. ww2dbase [Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Iwane Matsui entered Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Iwane Matsui | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
Japan
- 28 former Japanese leaders were indicted as war criminals at Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Tokyo Trial and Other Trials Against Japan | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
Japan
Japan
- The newly-elected parliament of Japan, which included female representatives, approved the new Japanese Constitution. ww2dbase [Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Radical ethnic Koreans attacked Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida at his official residence in Tokyo, Japan; Yoshida escaped harm. ww2dbase [Shigeru Yoshida | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Tokyo war crimes trials ended with eight war criminals sentenced to death and seventeen others to periods of imprisonment. ww2dbase [Tokyo Trial and Other Trials Against Japan | Tokyo | AC]
- Yoshijiro Umezu was found guilty of waging a war of aggression and was given a life sentence. ww2dbase [Yoshijiro Umezu | Tokyo | CPC]


Japan
- Iwane Matsui was sentenced to death by hanging. ww2dbase [Iwane Matsui | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Seven Japanese convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East were executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Tokyo Trial and Other Trials Against Japan | Tokyo | CPC]
- Hideki Tojo was executed at the Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Hideki Tojo | Tokyo | CPC]
- Akira Muto was executed at the Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Akira Muto | Tokyo | CPC]
- Koki Hirota was executed at the Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Koki Hirota | Tokyo | CPC]
- Kenji Doihara was executed at the Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Kenji Doihara | Tokyo | CPC]
- Seishiro Itagaki was executed by hanging at Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Seishiro Itagaki | Tokyo | CPC]
- Iwane Matsui was executed by hanging at the Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Iwane Matsui | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Yoshijiro Umezu passed away from rectal cancer while in imprisonment in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Yoshijiro Umezu | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
Japan
Japan
- Shigeru Yoshida stepped down as the Prime Minister of Japan after a unfavorable outcome in a vote of no confidence. ww2dbase [Shigeru Yoshida | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
Japan
Japan
- Kichisaburo Nomura passed away at the National Tokyo First Hospital in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Kichisaburo Nomura | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Hiroshi Nemoto was admitted into a hospital in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Hiroshi Nemoto | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Hiroshi Nemoto was discharged from a hospital in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Hiroshi Nemoto | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
- Hiroshi Nemoto passed away in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Hiroshi Nemoto | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
Japan
- Jiro Horikoshi passed away from pneumonia in Tokyo, Japan. ww2dbase [Jiro Horikoshi | Tokyo | CPC]
Japan
Japan
Japan
Japan
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