There, under the beating sun, they were hacked to death with swords. They held these men responsible for their nationвЂ™s defeat. The Japanese soldiers guarding them, though, couldnвЂ™t stand to let their enemies go free. They would go home, and they would be spared the horrible fate their comrades had suffered. Some were dissected alive, while others had their lungs filled with salt water for the sake of twisted experiments.ДЇor a brief moment, the Americans believed they would live. The Japanese soldiers in this camp had tortured the prisoners who came before them. They had parachuted out of damaged bombers over Kyushu, and they knew that a hell-on-earth awaited them. When the emperorвЂ™s surrender came in, a group of 16 American Airmen were awaiting their fate in a Japanese prison. 7It Was The First Time The People Heard The EmperorвЂ™s Voice The EmperorвЂ™s voice came through every radio in the country, announcing JapanвЂ™s surrender. One hour after he died, the recording was played. In his pocket, he left a note with his final message to the world: вЂњ I have nothing to regret now that the dark clouds have disappeared from the reign of the Emperor.вЂќ Then the two went off to meet their end.ДЄt 11:00 AM, Hatanaka shot himself in the head. Col Shiizaki, joined him, riding on horseback. He rode away on a motorcycle, tossing leaflets to everyone he could. The workers, though, refused to help him, and he couldnвЂ™t get on the air on his own. He couldnвЂ™t keep the recording from reaching the waves, but he could speak to the people himself and urge them to fight on.

He broke into the radio station and held the workers at gunpoint. He and his men fled the palace before the army arrived.ДЄfter leaving the palace, Hatanaka tried one last desperate attempt to keep Japan in the war. The army was coming for him, and he would die a traitor-not a hero. The people, he told him, had not risen up in his support. Hatanaka and his men searched the palace for hours, but they couldnвЂ™t find it.

Once they were in, they disarmed the other guards, blocked all the entrances, and cut all the telephone wires. He forged an order that let him send his men into the palace. Hatanaka believed he only needed to capture the Imperial Palace, and the people, inspired, would rise up behind him. They would steal the recording, they decided, and keep it from hitting the airwaves. Kenji Hatanaka, were determined to keep the war going. A group of high-ranking military men, led by Maj. Though the generals had signed the paper, some of the other officers would not accept it. Then he locked the recording in a safe and waited for the morning. His order would be meaningless if it was not followed, and so he made his generals sign their agreement to the surrender. But others, unable to find anyone who would offer their children refuge, gathered their families together and killed their own children before taking their own lives.Д®mperor Hirohito recorded his announcement that Japan would surrender a day before it aired. Some of the women gave their children to Chinese families, begging them to take care of their babies.

Several Japanese settlers ended their own lives, fearing what the Soviets would do them. Some fought and some fled, but many others just gave in. This was the place where theyвЂ™d set up Unit 731, where Japanese scientists dissected live human beings and tortured them with chemical weapons. In Manchuria, the Japanese had committed terrible atrocities. More than a million Japanese people lived there, and they feared the future more than anybody. The Soviet Army was attacking from the north, storming their way through the part of China the Japanese called Manchuria. The Japanese were already in a panic when the first atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima.

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