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The Remaking Of Japan Scratchy

The Pacific Story · December 31, 1945 · 29 min · 4,444 words

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The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific story. This is the story of the Pacific, the drama of the millions of people who live around this greatest sea, where the United States is now committed to a long-term policy of keeping the peace.

This is the background story of the events in the Pacific, and their meaning to us and to the generations to come. The remaking of Japan. At last the news came, our Emperor himself said the war was over.

I could not believe it. I was so angry I cried. The tears fell from my eyes or they. We had lost the war. Soon the Americans would come. We waited. Everything was quiet. When General Makarata came and his soldiers raised the American flag over the United States Embodied in topial I could not think how completely the Americans would change a Japan

Your show is an average Japanese intelligence moderately well educated a white collar worker He knew what the men who ran Japan wished him to know but little more the coral sea for what better? It never heard of the loss of the aircraft carrier sure hole and the other Japanese war vessels in the coral sea a midway

And North it never heard of the disaster at Midway the sinking of the two big carriers the Kaga and the Akagi, and the two smaller carriers, Hyru and Soryu, and of all the other losses there.

Quata Kanar? Or you mean our victory there? He had never heard of the sinking of the two old Japanese battleships, the A and here is Seema, and of the other Japanese losses at sea and ashore at Guadalcanal, nor until Japan collapsed had he ever heard of the Potsdam Declaration.

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