In the summer
of 1944, the US Army occupied Mariana Island, and started
air raids on the mainland of Japan with B-29 bombers
from November. By
the air raid on Tokyo of March
10, 1945, the death toll recorded about
80,000 due
to the damage of residential areas. The US Army took
over the
Io Island after one month's severe battle
in February, and they landed
on Okinawa and exterminated
Japan Army in April, 1945.
The Cabinet of Sekigantaro,
that was formed on April 7, 1945, cried out
for
fighting against US Army while held secret meeting with
Soviet Union
to mediate a settlement of war that
results in no progress.
On July 26, 1945 USA-UK-China
announced a settlement policy for Japan by
the Postdam
Declaration and forced Japan to surrender without any
conditions. Japan's disregard of this demand caused
US Army's atomic
bombing in Hiroshima on August
6 and in Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 that
results
in the death toll about 340,000.
Soviet Union at
last declared war against Japan on August 8, 1945 and
pushed forward to Manchuria. Japan accepted the Postsdam
Declaration on
15 August, and Japanese King released
the surrender documents on 15
August, 1945.
As soon as the Japan's surrender, McArther, the supreme
commander of the
allied force, assigned the Japan's
occupied territory to Soviet Union,
Manchuria, Inner
Mongolia, the upper part of 38 latitude of Korean
peninsula, and south Sakhalin. Stalin was stubborn to
take the northern
Hokaido, but Truman, the President
of USA, refused his request. This
means that Soviet
Union was excluded from the station of mainland of
Japan.
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