Fifty years after Japanese surrender in WWII
- Title
- Fifty years after Japanese surrender in WWII
- Genre
- News report
- TX Date
- 15 Aug 1995
- Year of production
- 1995
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- Duration
- 00:01:56
- Description
- Nick Wood reports on a memorial service in Tokyo, Japan to their war dead on the fiftieth anniversary of their surrender at the end of the Second World War. Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama made a statement of remorse for treatment of allied POWs beforehand but no official apology has been announced.
- Contributors
- Nick Wood
- Keywords
- Second World War (1939-1945); Japan; Prisoners of War; VJ Day; Commemorative events; Tomiichi Murayama; Anniversaries
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LBC/IRN, "Fifty years after Japanese surrender in WWII". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0006700168019 (Accessed 22 Jun 2025)