Recollection of Pacific War
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter — Copyright) TOKYO, August 12. Emperor Hirohito of Japan decided to end the Pacific War on June 9, 1945 — more than one month before the atom bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the date on which the Japanese War Council decided to fight to the bitter end, according to a war-time Government official. The daily newspaper, “Mainichi Shimbun,” quotes a former Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, Marquis Koichi Kido, who was sentenced to life imprisonment by a war crimes tribunal but was later released, as saying that while he did not attend the War Council meeting, its decision to fight on was relayed to him. “I thought it would not do any good,” the Marquis, now 85, told the newspaper. “I advised the Emperor to end the war, and he agreed. I then approached the Prime Minister, Mr Kantaro Suzuki . . . but in the end we could not end the war until August 15, after witnessing the atomic bombings and Soviet Union participation in the war.”
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33612, 14 August 1974, Page 19
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