- 1945 in Japan
yearbox
in?= in Japan
cp=19th Century
c=20th century
cf=21st centuryyp1=1942
yp2=1943
yp3=1944
year=1945
ya1=1946
ya2=1947
ya3=1948
dp3=1910s
dp2=1920s
dp1=1930s
d=1940s
da=0
dn1=1950s
dn2=1960s
dn3=1970s1945 was the 20th year of the
Showa period inJapan , the last year ofWorld War II and the first year of the Allied occupation.Incumbents
*Emperor:
Hirohito
*Prime Minister:Kuniaki Koiso ,Kantaro 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
*January 4: U.S & Filipino forces captured in Baroro Bridge in Bacnotan.
*January 9: U.S. & Filipino forces liberated inLuzon .
*January 26: The Philippine Commonwealth forces and the local guerilla fighters win the Second Battle of Santa Cruz in the town ofSanta Cruz, Laguna .
*February 3: U.S. troops entered inManila .
*February 18: U.S. Marines land onIwo Jima .
*February 23: U.S. & Filipino forces recaptureManila .
*March 3: U.S. & Filipino forces takeManila .
*March 10: Major bombing ofTokyo ,Sendai andMorioka .
*March 12: First bombing ofNagoya .
*March 13: First bombing ofOsaka .
*March 26: U.S. forces win theBattle of Iwo Jima , defeating the last remaining troops led byTadamichi Kuribayashi .
*March 31:Fukuoka Bank is founded.
*April 7: TheJapanese battleship Yamato is sunk.
*April 7: Suzuki forms his cabinet.
*May 1:Hiroshima Bank is founded.
*May 24: Second major bombing of Tokyo.
*May 29: First bombing ofYokohama .
*July 14: U.S and Filipino forces at the Battle of Bessang Pass in Northern Luzon.
*July 26: Allies issuePotsdam 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 .
*August 15: Last Allied bombing of Japan takes place inOdawara .
*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".
*September 2: The commanding general of theImperial Japanese Army by generalTomoyuki Yamashita was surrendered by the American and Filipino troops atKiangan, Ifugao .
*October 2: Office of theSupreme Commander Allied Powers is established at theDai-Ichi Seimei Building in Tokyo.
*October 5: Higashikuni cabinet resigns.
*October 9: Shidehara cabinet is formed.
*October 15:Peace Preservation Law is repealed.
*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
*March 7:Sadakazu Tanigaki , politician
*July 7:Natsuki Ikezawa , author
*August 9:Yoshinori Kurosawa , musician
*August 22:Tamori , entertainer
*September 3:Fusako Shigenobu , leader of theJapanese Red Army Deaths
*August 15:
Korechika Anami , war leader (suicide)
*December 13:Goro Shiba , military leader during theBoxer Rebellion
*December 16:Fumimaro Konoe , former prime minister (suicide)
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