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Events in the year 1945 in Japan.

1945 was the last year of World War II and the first year of the Allied occupation.

Incumbents[]

  • Emperor: Hirohito[1]
  • Prime Minister: Kuniaki Koiso, Kantarō Suzuki, Prince Higashikuni, Kijuro Shidehara
  • Minister of War: Gen Sugiyama, Korechika Anami
  • Minister of the Navy: Mitsumasa Yonai
  • Supreme Commander Allied Powers: Douglas MacArthur

Events[]

Atomic bombing of Nagasaki, August 9.
Douglas MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito.
  • February 18 - U.S. Marines land on Iwo Jima.
  • March 10 - Major bombing of Tokyo
  • March 12 - First bombing of Nagoya.
  • March 13 - First bombing of Osaka.
  • March 26 - U.S. forces win the Battle of Iwo Jima, defeating the last remaining troops led by Tadamichi Kuribayashi.
  • April 7 - The Japanese battleship Yamato is sunk.
  • April 7 - Suzuki forms his cabinet.
  • May 24 - Second major bombing of Tokyo.
  • May 29 - First bombing of Yokohama.
  • July 26 - Allies issue Potsdam Declaration; Japan refuses to agree to its terms.
  • August 6 - Atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
  • August 8 - Soviet Union declares war on Japan.
  • August 9 - Atomic bombing of Nagasaki.[2]
  • August 15 - Last Allied bombing of Japan takes place in Odawara and Tsuchizaki.
  • August 15 - Emperor Hirohito declares Japan's acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration.
  • August 30 - Douglas MacArthur arrives in Japan.
  • September 2 - Japanese officials sign instrument of surrender on the deck of the USS Missouri.
  • 24 September - Hirohito says that he did not want war and blames Tojo for the attack on Pearl Harbor
  • October 2 - Office of the Supreme Commander Allied Powers is established at the Dai-Ichi Seimei Building in Tokyo.
  • October 5 - Higashikuni cabinet resigns.
  • October 9 - Shidehara cabinet is formed.
  • October 15 - Peace Preservation Law is repealed.
  • October 31 – A news agency, Dōmei, officially disbanded, on following day, the news agency operation in nationwide, which separated into Kyōdō News Service and Jiji Press.[citation needed]
  • December 17 - Women's suffrage is granted in Diet elections.
  • December 18 - House of Representatives is dissolved: Diet elections called for April 1, 1946.

Births[]

  • January 6: Toshiko Hamayotsu, politician
  • January 29: Yoko Shinozaki, volleyball player
  • February 16: Masataka Itsumi, television announcer and singer (died 1993)
  • February 25: Toshikatsu Matsuoka, politician (died 2007)
  • March 7: Sadakazu Tanigaki, politician
  • March 13: Sayuri Yoshinaga, actress
  • March 14: Komaki Kurihara, actress
  • June 9: Yūji Aoki, manga artist (died 2003)
  • June 14: Hiroshi Miyauchi, actor
  • July 6: Kyōzō Nagatsuka, actor
  • July 7: Ikezawa Natsuki, author
  • July 10: Katsuji Mori, voice actor and narrator
  • July 19: Kenji Kimura, volleyball player
  • July 25: Masakatsu Morita, Tatenokai member (died 1970)
  • August 6: Yoshinori Sakai, Olympic flame torchbearer
  • August 20: Tomio Sumimoto, sprint canoer
  • August 22: Tamori, entertainer
  • September 3: Fusako Shigenobu, leader of the Japanese Red Army
  • September 12: Yumiko Fujita, actress
  • October 2: Shigenobu Murofushi, athlete
  • October 9: Kiyoko Suizenji, enka singer
  • October 19: Shigeo Nakata, wrestler
  • October 25: Keaton Yamada, voice actor and narrator
  • November 16: Haruko Okamoto, figure skater
  • December 15: Kimiko Kasai, jazz singer
  • December 23: Noriko Tsukase, voice actress (died 1989)

Deaths[]

  • January 9: Shigekazu Shimazaki, career officer
  • February 26: Sanji Iwabuchi
  • March 22: Takeichi Nishi
  • March 26: Tadamichi Kuribayashi
  • April 1: Gōtarō Ogawa
  • May 11: Kiyoshi Ogawa, naval aviator (suicide)
  • March 17: Tatsugo Kawaishi, swimmer (b. 1911)
  • April 16: Toshiko Tamura, novelist (b. 1884)
  • May 16: Shintarō Hashimoto, admiral (b. 1892)
  • May 21: Prince Kan'in Kotohito, Chief of Army General Staff (b. )
  • June 3: Fusashige Suzuki, athlete
  • June 7: Kitaro Nishida, philosopher (b. 1870)
  • June 22: Isamu Chō, officer (suicide)
  • June 23: Mitsuru Ushijima, general (suicide)
  • August 6: Senkichi Awaya, mayor of Hiroshima
  • August 15:
    • Korechika Anami, war leader (suicide)
    • Matome Ugaki, admiral
  • August 16: Takijirō Ōnishi, admiral (suicide)
  • August 17: Shimaki Kensaku, author (b. 1903)
  • August 20: Masahiko Amakasu, officer (suicide)
  • August 24:
    • Midori Naka, stage actress (b. 1909)
    • Shizuichi Tanaka, general (suicide)
  • September 9: Yoshitsugu Tatekawa, lieutenant-general
  • September 12: Hajime Sugiyama, field marshal (suicide) (b. )
  • September 14: Kunihiko Hashida, physician and physiologist (suicide)
  • September 20: Chōtoku Kyan, Okinawan karate master
  • September 26: Kiyoshi Miki, philosopher
  • October 15: Mokutaro Kinoshita, author, Dramaturge, poet, art historian and literary critic
  • October 18: Yoshiki Hayama, writer (b. 1894)
  • October 28: Kesago Nakajima, lieutenant-general
  • November 30: Shigeru Honjō, general (suicide)
  • December 13: Goro Shiba, military leader during the Boxer Rebellion (b. )
  • December 16: Fumimaro Konoe, former prime minister (suicide) (b. 1891)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Hirohito | Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  2. ^ "In pictures: Nagasaki bombing". BBC News. 8 August 2015. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
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