Ask almost anyone how the Second World War ended in the Pacific and they will sum it up along the lines of something like America dropped the bomb and Japan surrendered. Kinhachi Okamoto’s excellent film from 1967 shows that the actual events surrounding the signing of the treaty to end the war were much more complicated; in fact, the world is lucky the war ended the way it did. There were plenty of factions in Japan who wanted it to go on until the last man, woman and child gave their life for their country.
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