Part 45 1948

January 1 The chief of the army general staff and minister of army, inform prime minister Yoshijiro Umezu, that the consider surrendering a possibility, only when the emperor is allowed to remain, prime minister Yoshijiro Umezu tells him that he does not know if that will happen, but surrendering is the only thing left to do.

January 2 A reply for unconditional surrender is handed to the Swiss Foreign Minister by the Japanese minister in Berne, Switzerland.

January 3 President Truman calls a press conference, announcing the ‘Unconditional Surrender' of Japan’.

Japanese military junta end the house arrest for former prime minister Yamamoto , so that he can lead the intermit government, he immediately orders a Japanese surrender delegation to head toward Manila in the Philippines.

January 4 Great Britain grants independence to Burma, whit the republic of Burma also becoming a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

Whit prime minister Yamamoto, working to surrender the Japanese empire to the Allies, emperor Hirohito issues a radio broadcast announcing Japan's unconditional surrender, and orders all Japanese forces to cease fire (this broadcast is something emperor Hirohito wanted to do on march 10th 1947, but the coup happen and he was placed under house arrest, preventing him to make this radio address).

January 5 Victory over Japan is celebrated worldwide.

January 6 Second radio address by emperor Hirohito happens, and informs the people that the empire of Japan is accepting the Belfast Declaration, and that a Japanese surrender delegation is under way to the Philippines.

January 7 Japanese surrender delegation arrives in Manila for discussion with General MacArthur and his staff.

January 8 Negotiations in Manila, between the Japanese surrender delegation and General MacArthur and his staff contusions, General MacArthur mentions to the media, that the first US troops are able to land on the Japanese mainland within 10 days of signing the surrender.

January 9 The Japanese surrender delegation in Manila announce that the first US landings will be on January 27th.

January 10 General MacArthur says the surrender will be signed in the Tokyo area on January 31st.

January 11 The Japanese news agency says that all Japanese troops are to be out of the US landing area by January 23rd.

January 12 After two weeks of diplomatic negations, all 13 direct participant nations in the Portuguese capitol of Lisbon, agree that the signing of the peace accord by all 13 head of states will happen on February 12th, a month after this day.

January 17 Netherlands decides to continuing its cease fire against the free Indonesian movement in the Netherlands East Indies, as the Dutch cabinet appointed committee continues working on a plan for an independent Netherlands East Indies before 1951 and the separation of Netherlands of New Guinea who the Netherlands wants to keep.

January 18 The US navy request, from the French, Netherlands, Australian and New Zeeland navy’s, which naval ships, they will send, to the signing of the Japanese instrument of surrender, on January 31st, in Tokyo bay.

January 19 Whit the empire of Japan out of the way, hostilities between Chinese nationalists and Chinese communists break into the open, as reports of heavy clashes between the Chinese liberation army and the republic of China army begin to happen (the national revolutionary army was renamed as the republic of China armed forces after the Chinese communists left the national revolutionary army on January 11th 1947).

Lieutenant colonel Kim Il-sung, commander of the Korean volunteer army arrives in in the city of Heijō, where the Soviet 35th red banner army and the Soviet military authority in Korea (SMAK) have their headquarters, and which is the place where, Lieutenant colonel Kim Il-sung, is to establish the Korean Provisional People's government.

New Zeeland and Australia , list which naval vessels they are sending to Tokyo bay on January 31st , these are for the Royal Australian Navy , heavy cruiser , HMAS Shropshire ,cruiser , HMAS Hobart , destroyers , HMAS Napier and HMAS Warramunga , frigate , HMAS Gascoyne and minesweepers , HMAS Ballarat , HMAS Cessnock , HMAS Ipswich and HMAS Pirie , the Royal New Zealand Navy decides only to send the cruiser , HMNZS Gambia to the signing of the Japanese instrument of surrender.

January 20 The Royal Netherlands Navy decides to send Tromp-class cruiser HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck, Admiralen-class destroyer HNLMS Kortenaer and N-class destroyer HMNLS Van Galen, to the signing of the Japanese instrument of surrender (all of them are part of the Netherlands East Indies Squadron operating in the Netherlands East Indies).

January 21 The French announce that they are sending the carrier La Fayette, cruiser, Jean de Vienne, battleship, Richelieu and two destroyers who are assigned to the French Indian Ocean Fleet, to the Japanese instrument of surrender, on January 31st.

January 22 British foreign secretary Bevin proposes the formation of a western union between Great Britain, France and the Benelux countries to stand up against the German empire and the central alliance.

January 27 First US marines and troops belonging to the 17th airborne division land in Tokyo Bay.

January 28 Elements of the 11th airborne division lands at Atsugi airfield and the 8th marine regiment of the 2nd marine division lands at Kurihama naval base at Yokosuka.

January 29 Lead by Iowa-class battleship USS Wisconsin, the 4th marine division lands on the southern coast of Kanagawa ,southern Kantō region of Honshū, ,Japan

January 30 Mahatma Gandhi, India spiritual and political leader, is assassinated by a Hindu extremist in New Delhi, at the age of 78.

The first Winter Olympics open in St. Moritz, Switzerland sins the end of the western war in Europe almost three years ago (only 19 nations compete in St. Moritz, as neither the members of the central alliance nor the Soviet Union and here allies have decided to send their athletes to the games ).

January 31 The German Empire begins to jam the voice of free Europe broadcasts, which are being broadcast from the Netherlands and the French republic, as according to the German government, the voice of free Europe is being used for propaganda against the German Empire.

American General Douglas MacArthur signs the document listing the terms of Japan's surrender, on the American battleship USS Wisconsin, in Tokyo Bay.