Hello Everyone,<br><br>Today marks the 65th anniversary of the signing of
the <span style="line-height: 15px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Instrument_of_Surrender" title="Japanese Instrument of Surrender" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">Japanese Instrument of Surrender</font></a>, <span style="font-style: normal;">which occurred Sunday, September 2nd,1945.</span></span></i></span><br>
<br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">To commemorate, I would like to share this rare, 8 minute long, film footage of <span>Japanese</span> <span>surrender, </span>which officially ended WWll, 3 years and 9 months of battle in the Asia-Pacific region.</div>
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</span></div></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">In the footage, the narrator mentions that the <span>Japanese</span> Foreign Minister, Sigemitsu Mamoru (<font size="3"><font face="MS Gothic"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><font size="3">ñìÎÃÐ)</font></span></font></font>was wounded by a Korean patriot and walks on an artificial leg.<br>
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<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">In 1932,
upon learning that the <span>Japanese</span> were going to have a
ceremony in a Shanghai park to commemorate their recent victory over
China in a Shanghai skirmish and to celebrate their Emperor's birthday,
Mr. Kim Ku (±è ±¸), the then President of the Korean Provincial
Government (the government in exile) and Yoon Bong-Gil (À± ºÀ±æ) concocted a
plan to eliminate <span>Japanese</span> leadership in China.</div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br>With
money sent by Koreans in the U.S., Mr. Kim Ku ordered two bombs made by
the Nationalist Chinese Ordinance Depot in Shanghai.</div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br>On
April 29th, 1932, during the ceremony in the Shanghai park, Yoon
detonated one bomb on the troop review stage, killing General Sirokawa
Yosinori (<font size="3"><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"><font size="3">ÛÜô¹ëùöÎ), who was </font></span></font>the overall commander of <span>Japanese</span> forces in China. The bomb also wounded several other military commanders as well as Sigemitsu Mamoru, who was the then <span>Japanese</span> Ambassador to China at the time.</div>
<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <font size="3"><font face="MS Gothic"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 9pt;" lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><br></font></span></font></font>General
Chiang Kai-sheck, the then Nationalist Chinese Premier stated, "A
young Korean patriot has accomplished something tens of thousand of
Chinese soldiers could not do." Ever since, finally, he and his
government extended their full support to the Korean Provincial
Government.<br> <br> Mr. Yoon was later executed in Japan at the age of 24, and was survived by his 25 year
old wife, and 2 sons, ages 3 and 1.<br><br>Details of this account can be found in President Kim's autobiography, <i>Baikbum Ilji</i> (¹é¹ü ÀÏÁö, pages 214-215).<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Kwang-On Yoo<br></div>