{"id":6350,"date":"2017-06-08T13:13:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T19:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6350"},"modified":"2017-06-08T13:13:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T19:13:16","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-4-10-june-1945-hirohito-holds-a-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6350","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 4–10 June 1945: Hirohito holds a meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Emperor Hirohito presides over an Imperial General Headquarters meeting, 1943 [Public domain]<\/p><\/div>This week in the war, on 8 June 1945, Emperor Hirohito presided over a meeting of the Japanese cabinet. They decided that Japan would continue fighting until the very end.<\/p>\n

Japanese kamikaze pilots were still effective and, in his book Second World War<\/em> (Stoddart, 1989), Martin Gilbert reports that, on average,\u00a0an American infantryman on Okinawa could expect to become a casualty after three weeks of fighting.<\/p>\n

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