Korechika Anami
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Korechika Anami was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II who was War Minister during the surrender of Japan.
Anami c. 1935-1938
General Anami in 1944.
Surrender of Japan
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The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, ending the war. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japan
Korechika Anami
…惟幾, Anami Korechika; 21 February 1887 – 15 August 1945) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II who was War Minister during the surrender of Japan. Anami was born in Taketa city in Ōita Prefecture, where his father was a senior bureaucrat in the Home Ministry, and grew up in Tokyo and in Tokushima…
Japanese foreign affairs minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Japanese Instrument of Surrender aboard USS Missouri as American General Richard K. Sutherland watches, 2 September 1945
Representatives of the Empire of Japan stand aboard USS Missouri prior to signing of the Instrument of Surrender
Allied landings in the Pacific Theatre of operations, August 1942 to August 1945
The rebuilt battlecruiser Haruna sank at her moorings in the naval base of Kure on 24 July during a series of bombings