Occupied Japan

Former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo attempts suicide in an attempt to escape arrest on war crimes charge.

Images from September 11, 1945

British Former Prisoners of War Rest on USS Block Island, 11 September. 1945 Place: Manila, Luzon Island, Philippines

British Former POWs

Hideki Tojo being treated by US medical personnel in Tokyo, Japan after his failed suicide attempt, 11 September 1945.

Tojo Being Treated by US Medical Personnel

The Australian armed forces under Maj-Gen Wootten entered Kuching on 11 September 1945 to receive the formal surrender of the Japanese army in Sarawak. Major General H. Yamamura surrending his sword, 11 September 1945 in Kuching.

Japanese Surrender in Sarawak

The camp commander, Lt.-Col. Tatsuji Suga (right) with Brigadier Thomas Eastick (left) and Lt-Col. A. W. Walsh (center) shortly after the liberation of Batu Lintang (a Japanese internment camp during the Second World War), 11 September 1945. Suga killed himself five days later.

Liberating Japanese Internment Camp