Japanese officials at the surrender ceremonies (WWII)

[ivanotter]

All,

This is not really a what-if - but I hope that someone has got some info.

… and this is out of pure curiosity.

Who were the Japanese officials during the surrender ceremonies (all of them!) - and what did they do afterwards?

We have a rather exact account of German officials - and also the fate afterwards. Although Germany does not have a tradition of suicide, we do see several of this happening (Friedeburg is an example).

… But what happened with the Japanese delegates?

Ivan

 

[Gukpard]

All,

This is not really a what-if - but I hope that someone has got some info.

… and this is out of pure curiosity.

Who were the Japanese officials during the surrender ceremonies (all of them!) - and what did they do afterwards?

We have a rather exact account of German officials - and also the fate afterwards. Although Germany does not have a tradition of suicide, we do see several of this happening (Friedeburg is an example).

… But what happened with the Japanese delegates?

Ivan

I remember that there was one who was a war criminal.so he escaped to Indochina and continued as a officer until disappearing.

 

[Thomas Jefferson]

Wikipedia's listing of officials at the surrender ceremony at the USS Missouri:

• 
  Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu: Sentenced to seven years in prison for war crimes, paroled in 1950 and returned to politics, served as Deputy Prime Minister of Japan from 1954-1956, died in 1957
• 
  General Yoshijirō Umezu, Chief of the Army General Staff: Sentenced to life in prison for war crimes, died in prison in 1949
• 
  Major General Yatsuji Nagai
• 
  Katsuo Okazaki (Foreign Ministry): Elected to the Japanese House of Representatives in 1949, served as Foreign Minister from 1952-1954 and negotiated the mutual security treaty with the US, called out of retirement to serve as Japan's delegate to the UN from 1961-1963 and died in 1965.
• 
  Rear Admiral Tadatoshi Tomioka
• 
  Toshikazu Kase (Foreign Ministry): Published a book on the war and became Japan's Ambassador to the United Nations in 1955, died at the age of 101 in 2004. His son Hideaki Kase is a leading historical revisionist with regards to Japanese war crimes, and his niece is Yoko Ono.
• 
  Lt. General Suichi Miyakazi
• 
  Rear Admiral Ichiro Yokoyama
• 
  Saburo Ota (Foreign Ministry)
• 
  Captain Katsuo Shiba (Navy)
• 
  Colonel Kaziyi Sugita

 

[ivanotter]

Thanks. That is also the only list I have.

Wiki says:

Following the signing of the instrument of surrender, many further surrender ceremonies took place across Japan's remaining holdings in the Pacific. Japanese forces in Southeast Asia surrendered on September 2, 1945, in Penang, September 10 in Labuan, September 11 in the Kingdom of Sarawak and September 12 in Singapore"

Who were these people? Can't find anything

 

[ivanotter]

Sorry, there a few names

 

[SsgtC]

Thanks. That is also the only list I have.

Wiki says:

Following the signing of the instrument of surrender, many further surrender ceremonies took place across Japan's remaining holdings in the Pacific. Japanese forces in Southeast Asia surrendered on September 2, 1945, in Penang, September 10 in Labuan, September 11 in the Kingdom of Sarawak and September 12 in Singapore"

Who were these people? Can't find anything

Those were generally military forces surrendering, so I would assume it would be the Commanding Officer of the troops in question. Maybe the Military and/or Civilian Governor of the area where applicable

 

[Carl Schwamberger]

I remember that there was one who was a war criminal.so he escaped to Indochina and continued as a officer until disappearing.

You may be thinking of Col Tsuji (sp?) .he was not involved in the surrender, but was on the war criminal list & is rumored to have last been identified in Burma circa 1946 or later.

 

[Gukpard]

You may be thinking of Col Tsuji (sp?) .he was not involved in the surrender, but was on the war criminal list & is rumored to have last been identified in Burma circa 1946 or later.

Yes, hum. I saw him on a anime, believe or not, and did some research later and saw that he disappeared.