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Countdown to surrender
What's on TV
|August 16, 2025
A military coup almost derailec Japan's capitulation and the end of World War Two...
24 HOURS: THE JAPANESE SURRENDER
Saturday, 8.10pm, C4 Factual
The anniversary of VJ day on 15 August marks 80 years since the official end of World War Two. But Japanese surrender wasn't a foregone conclusion.
At Tokyo's Imperial Palace, unrest, a military coup and the threat of a nuclear attack meant everything hung on a knife-edge.
This story is from the August 16, 2025 edition of What's on TV.
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