Best August 14, 1945 WW II newspaper EXTRA - JAPAN ANNOUNCES IT WILL SURRENDER

Description: Best August 14, 1945 WW II newspaper EXTRA - JAPAN ANNOUNCES IT WILL SURRENDER Best August 14, 1945 WW II display newspaper EXTRA with a "first report" - JAPAN ANNOUNCES IT WILL SURRENDER TO THE ALLIES - inv # 3I-406Please visit our EBAY STORE for THOUSANDS MORE HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS for SALE or at auction SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL front news section of a newspaper, the San Francisco Examiner EXTRA (CA) "FINAL" edition dated August 14, 1945. This original newspaper contains a large banner headline: "TOKYO RADIO SAYS: / JAPAN SURRENDERS!" with a 1st announcement of the SURRENDER of JAPAN to the ALLIES and thus the end of WW II.Japanese Emperor Hirohito recorded a radio message to the Japanese people saying that the war should end and that they must "bear the unbearable." That night the Kyujo incident occurred, an effort by a group of officers to steal the recording and stop the move to surrender. The attempt would fail and the conspirators would commit suicide.The Hirohito surrender broadcast, also known as the Jewel Voice Broadcast was a radio broadcast of surrender given by Hirohito, the emperor of Japan, on August 15, 1945.It announced to the Japanese people that the Japanese government had accepted the Potsdam Declaration, which demanded the unconditional surrender of the Japanese military at the end of World War II. Following the Hiroshima bombing on August 6, and the Soviet declaration of war and Nagasaki bombing on August 9, the Emperor's speech was broadcast at noon Japan Standard Time on August 15, 1945, and referred to the atomic bombs as a reason for the surrender.The speech is the first known instance of a Japanese emperor speaking to the common people (albeit via a phonograph record). It was delivered in formal Classical Japanese, with much pronunciation unfamiliar to ordinary Japanese. The speech made no direct reference to a surrender of Japan, instead stating that the government had been instructed to accept the "joint declaration" (the Potsdam Declaration) of the United States, the United Kingdom, China, and the Soviet Union. This confused many listeners not familiar with the declaration about whether Japan had actually surrendered. Both the poor audio quality of the radio broadcast and the formal courtly language worsened the confusion.Though the word "surrender" was not explicitly stated, Emperor Showa instructed Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki and his administration to communicate to the Allies that the "Empire accepts the provisions of their joint declaration", which amounted to an acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration. He justified Japan's decision to go to war as an act of "self-preservation and the stabilization of East Asia" and referenced the setbacks and defeats of recent years, saying "the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage". He mentioned the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that had occurred days earlier, calling the atomic bomb a "new and most cruel bomb". The Emperor ended with a call on the Japanese people "to be devoted to construction for the future".The broadcast was translated into English and broadcast internationally by radio presenter Tadaichi Hirakawa at the same time. In the U.S., the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recorded the broadcast, and its entire text appeared in The New York Times.Very good condition. This listing includes the complete entire original 4-page newspaper "EXTRA", NOT just a clipping or a page of it. STEPHEN A. 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