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Some of the information regarding the conversations which took place among the numbers of The Big Six in Tokyo in the first days of August, 1945, and especially those held during the final Imperial meeting when Emperor Hirohito ordered the ruling military to surrender, remained concealed for many years. At the conclusion of that critical meeting, all recorded minutes and proceedings were ordered destroyed at the request of the Emperor. However, Admiral Sadatoshi Tomioka, with the assistance of Admiral Yonai, felt it essential to history to preserve them for posterity. Those papers, along with a number of other documents pertaining to the final days of the war with Japan and the Allies, were subsequently hidden in the private library of Admiral Tomioka who, at the time, was the head of the Historical Research Institute in Tokyo.
The author wishes to express his personal gratitude to Nagase Takashi, a former warrant officer and English translator in the Japanese Imperial Army at various Prisoner of War camps at Kanchanaburi and along the River Kwai, for providing additional information concerning the wording of the secret directive from General Terauchi to POW camp commandants throughout Southeast Asia which ordered the execution of more than one million Allied military and civilian POWs in the final days of the war. He came upon the directive concealed among a number of papers on the desk of his commanding officer at a command post in Bangkok three days before Japan’s surrender. His work seeking forgiveness from Allied prisoners of war at the River Kwai led to the making of several films, including The Railway Man and To End All Wars.1 2
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The reference numbers below refer to papers available at Hong Kong University Library:
CHURCHILL’S SECRET SPEECHES LIBRARY #: 940.5342 - C 5
HONG KONG DURING THE PACIFIC WAR H.K.P.- #940.5425 - C 45
ESCAPE FROM THE BLOODIED SUN H.K. - #940.5425 - G 93
TOJO AND THE WAR # 952.033- B98729
JAPAN DURING THE WAR: 1941 POLICY CONFERENCE #940.5352 - I 26
The remarks attributed to Major G.F. Eliot on Page 31 appeared in the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, in an article entitled Japan Must Yield or Fight, and is dated the day of the Japanese attack, December 8, 1941.
The poem HONG KONG 1941 signed L. is from the South China Morning Post of November 17, 1941.
Some of the data relating to the amount of destruction and the number of deaths at Pearl Harbor are from Life Magazine, Bicentennial Issue, 1975.
The information that the Hongkong Bank had been authorized to move its Head Office from Hong Kong is contained in the Hong Kong Government Gazette Extraordinary dated December 3, 1941.
The Internet contains a great many sites containing information that until recently was not available or would have required a great deal of effort and research to uncover. Fortunately, today the interested reader can Google virtually any name mentioned in this study to uncover more information and, in several instances, find videos and photographs depicting all sides of the events.
A huge amount of information and an extensive list of books for further study can be found at www.cofepow.org.uk/pages/books.html
A summary of the surrender can be found here:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan
Two must-see films can be viewed at the following:
* hauntedchangi.blogspot.com/2010/01/och-japanese-invaion-of-singapore-ww2.html
* singaporeevacuation1942.blogspot.com/2010_10_01_archive.com
The Japanese Holocaust: Acts of Terrorism and Atrocity
* http://www.ww2pacific.com/atrocity.html
Japanese War Crimes:
* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes
* http://www.duhaime.org/LawMuseum/LawArticle-1625/1941-The-Japanese-Military- Field-Code.aspx
* www.forces-war-records.co.uk/prisoners-of-war-of-the-japanese-1939-1945
* www.google.com/search?q=japanese+pow+camps+punishments&sa=X&biw=1536&bih=866&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ved=0ahUKEwie2LGMzsLNAhVFy2MKHShyAT4QsAQINg
* www.teraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/10382906/Burma-Railway-British-POW-breaks-silence-over-horrors.html
* http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/tokyo/tokyolinks.html
A song of reconciliation: The Railway Man - Nagase Takashi and Eric Lomax
* www.youtube.com/watch?v=ladeBDc8Ldk