1945 in Japan
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
Governors
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 - Koiso Cabinet resigns and Kantarō 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October 15 - Peace Preservation Law is repealed.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
November 6 – According to Japan Coast Guard official confirmed report, a passenger ship Toyo-maru No 10 , capsized off Hakata Island, Seto Inland Sea , Ehime Prefecture , 397 persons were perished.[citation needed
November 12 – According to Fukuoka Prefecture official confirmed report, a large scale explosion, while to Allied Peacekeeping Forces were disposing of weapons hidden by Japanese Imperial Army in Futamata Tunnel in Soeda , Kyushu Island , 147 persons were killed and 149 persons were wounded.[ 3]
December 9 – According to Japan Coast Guard official confirmed report, a passenger ship Sekirei-maru capsized by overcapacity and rough sea off Akashi , Hyogo Prefecture , total 304 persons were their lost to lives.[ 4]
December 17 - Women's suffrage is granted in Diet elections.
December 18 - House of Representatives is dissolved: First post-WWII general election 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 (died 2014 )
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. 1865 )
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:
August 16: Takijirō Ōnishi , admiral (suicide)
August 17: Shimaki Kensaku , author (b. 1903 )
August 20: Masahiko Amakasu , officer (suicide)
August 24:
September 9: Yoshitsugu Tatekawa , lieutenant-general
September 12: Hajime Sugiyama , field marshal (suicide) (b. 1880 )
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. 1860 )
December 16: Fumimaro Konoe , former prime minister (suicide) (b. 1891 )
See also
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