Talk:Surrender of Japan/Archive 3

August 14th or 15th?
The imperial rescript was officially announced on August 14.

https://www.ndl.go.jp/constitution/e/shiryo/01/017shoshi.html

Official Gazette dated August 14.

https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/2962077/4?tocOpened=1

--Rokdelt (talk) 11:28, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 9 December 2022
It should say the British Empire instead of Great Britain in the lede. Jgins (talk) 19:38, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
 * ✅ Good catch. I replaced it with United Kingdom as the most recognizable term; I think British Empire may place undue emphasis on the UK's global spread, which isn't super relevant to its role in the Potsdam Declaration etc. Ovinus (talk) 21:02, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Incorrect info under Further surrenders and resistance
Under the section titled "Further surrenders and resistance", the last sentence reads:

"Some may never have heard of it. Teruo Nakamura, the last known holdout, emerged from his hidden retreat in what was now independent Indonesia in December 1974, while two other Japanese soldiers, who had joined Communist guerrillas at the end of the war, fought in southern Thailand until 1991."

According to this Associated Press article: https://apnews.com/article/ade6f55bfed4013ad1b7b4e955e9d1ae

...that last bit of information in bold is incorrect. The two Japanese men fought in Malaysia, not Thailand, and they returned to Japan in early 1990, not 1991. 166.181.80.38 (talk) 09:55, 18 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Good work! Updated link for your article: https://web.archive.org/web/20201103224558/https://apnews.com/article/ade6f55bfed4013ad1b7b4e955e9d1ae ... your source is more contemporaneous than the Wilmott et al source, and yet I'd still like to see what Wilmott et al cites as _their_ source! Cancerward (talk) 06:46, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I've added your AP ref and noted that Wilmott et al seem to have a typo. The Wilmott et al source which seems to be about the same two reads
 * The actual process of surrender throughout East Asia, the Western Pacific, and Southeast Asia was not complete until spring 1946. It would not be until 1974 that the last surviving Japanese not to have surrendered finally emerged from his hiding place on Lubang in the Philippines. Some Japanese in Malaya deserted after August 1945 and joined the communists. Two survivors did not lay down their arms in southern Thailand until 1991. For some, it seemed, there was no end to World War II. Cancerward (talk) 05:15, 2 August 2023 (UTC)