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Second Sino-Japanese War - Part 5: The aftermath and legacy of conflict
August 1945 brought searing heat to East Asia—and with it, the long-awaited end of the Second Sino-Japanese War. In the preceding weeks, atomic bombs had incinerated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, while Soviet armies swept through Japanese-occupied Manchuria. Japanese command structures crumbled as Emperor Hirohito’s surrender speech crackled over radios, his voice trembling through static.
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