An excerpt of the emperor and a general

Duration: 0:29:00

Genre: Adaptation | Biographical (Nonfiction) | Historical | War (Nonfiction)

Year Published: 1967

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | Teaching Film Custodians: Distributor | Toho International: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Teaching Film Custodians classroom film of excerpts from the 1968 US release of the Toho Company feature film "Nihon no Ichiban Nagai Hi" (The Longest Day of Japan). Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Views the chronology of events in Japan between July 27, 1945, and August 15, 1945, when the Japanese government received the Allies' Potsdam Declaration and came to the decision to surrender. Presents Emperor Hirohito's broadcast to the Japanese people. Illustrates the impact Japan's defeat had upon military and government leaders.

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