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Joining forces, Mr. Desire and Mr. Okaya held down a squirrel so that Mr. Nakamora could take a dump on it, but an atom bomb fell on their exact location and consequently vaporized 140.000 people. To many, it was right then and there, and not on August 15 of 1945 when Japan signed its surrender, that World War II came to an end.
After six long, bloody years, the war was finally over.
That very same year, the U.S. occupying forces under General Douglas McArther led the efforts in the occupation and rehabilitation of the Japanese state, both in order to hinder the temptations presented by the communist doctrine and to secure an important ally against it. The Land of the Rising Sun was forbidden to have its own army, and instead had to host American military bases on its soil. As if from morning to afternoon, it grew dependent on the flag that had committed, against it, the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict history,
a fact that remains unchanged even seventy years later.
Six years later, in 1951, 48 nations would sign the Treaty of San Francisco, also known as the Treaty of Peace with Japan. It ended the Allied post-war occupation of Japan and returned full sovereignty to it after due compensation to the Allied Nations, and to the prisoners of war who had suffered Japanese war crimes during the war. The yankees had left, leaving behind their military bases.
Something else was left behind.
