24 Hours That Changed The World: Japan’s Surrender on SBS and SBS on Demand – With the war in Europe over, 24 Hours That Changed the World: Japan’s Surrender delves into the war in the Pacific, which raged on.
The reluctance of Japan to surrender even after suffering the horrors of two atomic bombs was not a matter of bravery and conviction; it was of honour. As a concept, surrender did not sit well with the military or civilian population.
It would take their monarch, Emperor Hirohito, a living god in Japan, to deliver a surrender speech to his people for the war to finally end. But the dishonour of defeat was too much for some factions within his military to bear.
This is the story of the attempted coup to stop the broadcast of the emperor’s speech.
24 Hours That Changed The World: Japan’s Surrender on SBS and SBS on Demand – Premiere / Saturday 30 August at 7.30pm
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