Titled 'Allied Forces land In Japan'. USS Missouri leading a convoy of 400 warships into the Bay of Tokyo. Admiral Halsey of the U.S. Navy smiles. Huge guns on the ship. A U.S. Army Air Force base at the island of Okinawa, Japan. U.S. Army Air Force plane lands at a Japanese Air Force base near Tokyo. Officers of the Japanese Air Force surrender to the officials of the Allied forces. U.S. National Flag hoisted at Tokyo Airdrome. Base operations sign there for the 3rd Airdrome Squadron. Japanese Military Police marching at Hazuki Airfield. Scenes of destroyed planes and facilities on the ground at Hazuki airfield. Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander of the fleet of Allied Forces congratulates forces on the USS Missouri. Japanese ship alongside USS San Diego. Japanese men climb into the ship and give navigation instructions to the San Diego and Task Force 31. Many sunken Japanese ships in harbor at Yokosuko. Japanese ship Nagato and crew taken into custody by the Navy and its new captain Thomas Flynn.
The entrance to the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan. View of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in the Kasumigaseki district before it was destroyed by fire during the Great Kanto Earthquake. A car drives away from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building. Pedestrians walking outside the Ministry of Justice building (1-1-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0013). View of the Imperial Diet building, now known as the National Diet building (1 Chome-7-1 Nagatachō, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-0014, Japan). Emperor Hirohito on horseback inspects Japanese troops. Marching Imperial Japanese Army troops before World War II. Emperor Hirohito boards a Japanese Navy ship. Sailors in Japanese Navy ships.
Tokyo Bay beach installations, Tokyo. Two U.S. destroyers enter Tokyo Harbor. Mountains in background. Shoreline of Japan. Japanese installations on the beach. Shoreline and beach installations on Tokyo Bay mountains.
Emperor Hirohito visits the grave of his father (Emperor Taisho) following the surrender of Japan at the end of World War 2. View of Mt. Fuji in Japan. Torii gate at the Musashi Imperial Graveyard (1833 Nagabusamachi, Hachioji, Tokyo 193-0824, Japan) in Nagabusa-machi, Hachiōji, Tokyo, Japan. Shinto priests waiting for Emperor Hirohito’s arrival. Emperor Hirohito, wearing a Western semi-civilian court dress, alights from his car and salutes. Shinto priests bow to Emperor Hirohito. Emperor Hirohito and other Japanese officials descend a set of stone stairs. Emperor Hirohito, now posthumously known as the Shōwa Emperor, leaves the Musashi Imperial Graveyard by car.
Soldiers marching in the Yasukuni Shrine (3 Chome-1-1 Kudankita, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 102-8246, Japan), in Tokyo, Japan prior to World War 2. . Soldiers visit the shrine to commemorate Japanese troops who died in the wars involving Japan since the Meiji period. Soldiers march through a torii and into the shrine. The Imperial Seal of Japan, known as the Chrysanthemum Seal (菊紋, kikumon), is displayed in front of the Yasukuni Shrine. Officers salute in front of a map.
Wounded Japanese troops visit the Yasukuni Shrine (3 Chome-1-1 Kudankita, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 102-8246, Japan) in Tokyo, Japan. Visitors commemorate the Japanese people killed on foreign soil in wars involving Japan since the Meiji period. A group of wounded soldiers (wearing white robes) leaves the shrine. The Imperial Seal of Japan, known as the Chrysanthemum Seal (菊紋, kikumon), is displayed in front of the Yasukuni Shrine. A man in uniform accompanies the group of wounded soldiers. Soldiers put on their caps while walking. Two soldiers sitting near a window in a bus, watching a woman and a child near the window outside. Wounded soldiers get into buses. A woman standing at the gate of a bus bows as the soldiers enter the bus. (Note: the conflict creating casualties at this time is probably on the Manchuko border with the Soviet Union.)
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