VJ Day...70 Years Ago..

[WILMASBOYL78]

70 years ago today President Truman announced that Japan had accepted the terms of surrender, thus ending the war in the Pacific. The official surrender ceremony took place a few weeks later, but the world began celebrating on August 14th....the Life magazine photo below tells the story.

wilma

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_over_Japan_Day

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God bless America. Would love to see what the current so called leader of the free world would do. Probably apologize!

[427TJ]

TOKYO (AP) -- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe acknowledged Friday that Japan inflicted "immeasurable damage and suffering" on innocent people in World War II, but stopped short of offering his own apology and said future generations of Japanese should not have to make them either.

In a widely anticipated statement marking the 70th anniversary of his country's surrender, he said instead that Japan's repeated past "heartfelt apologies" would remain unshakeable in the future.

"On the 70th anniversary of the end of the war, I bow my head deeply before the souls of all those who perished both at home and abroad," Abe said in a 25-minute address delivered live on national television. "I express my feelings of profound grief and my eternal, sincere condolences."

The statement was closely watched by Japan's neighbors, especially South Korea and China, and it was unclear whether it would satisfy them.

Resentment over invasion, occupation and atrocities by the Japanese Imperial Army before and during the war still bedevils relations between Japan and the East Asian countries seven decades after Tokyo's surrender on Aug. 15, 1945.