Radio Tokyo announced that Japan intended to surrender.
Japanese surrender documents are sent to General MacArthur from Washington D.C.
The U.S. Air Force dropped leaflets all over Japan explaining the position reached in the surrender negotiations and the state of affairs in Japan.
Resistance to surrender beings to form within the Japanese military.
One eyed Japanese Sub-Lieutenant Saburo Sakai (坂井 三郎) shot down a B-29 near Tokyo.
He would go on to become e a Buddhist acolyte after the war and vowed never again to kill anything that lived, even a mosquito. He excused the US nuclear attacks, saying if ordered to do something like them against the US, he would have done so. He died in 2000 after a attending a US Navy formal dinner at Atsugi Naval Air Station as an honored guest, He was 84 years old.
This wasn't atypical for certain well known Japanese wartime figures. Many seem to have had a serious change in heart.
Mongolia pointlessly declared war on Japan.
The Southern Jiangsu Campaign began as part of the Chinese Civil War, seeing Chinese collaborationist forces realign with the Nationalist and local warlord forces and take the offensive against the Communists. Combatants included Japanese troops who now threw in with the Nationalist. The offensive was a win win proposition for the Nationalist as it both addressed the Communist while reducing the warlords, whom had preserved some power through collaboration with the Japanese.
It also demonstrated, however, the long term problem in Chiang Kai Shek's' regime, in that he had no natural national allegiance. Or at least no overarching ones. This put it at a serious disadvantage with the ideologically united Chinese Communists.
The World Zionist Congress demanded that 1,000,000 Jews be admitted to British Palestine.
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