When US and Japanese troops stopped fighting to talk, eat and pray together

By Nick Megoran, Professor of Political Geography, Newcastle University
Hiroshi Sakai, Professor, Department of Psychology and Applied Communication, Hokusei Gakuen University

Japan’s Emperor Hirohito ordered his country’s surrender in a radio broadcast on August 15 1945. After the deaths of some 70 million people, the second world war had finally come to an end.

Reflections on the anniversary of the conflict’s end often turn, understandably, to the cataclysmic atomic bombings of Hiroshimi and Nagasaki that precipitated the emperor’s decision.

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