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Policemen. A quarter of a million Japanese troops were still armed and on duty in North China. Most were guarding towns and communications against Communist and other guerrillas. Their commander was slight, polite General Yasuji Okamura...
Technically, Prisoner Okamura took orders from Chungking. But he still carried on from a comfortable stucco headquarters in Nanking, equipped with a formal garden and teahouse. He drove about in a black Buick sedan. He maintained direct radio contact with his forces in the field. Meticulously uniformed, his riding boots a bit worn but smartly polished, he talked with a TIME correspondent...
Japanese troops, having played out their last forlorn role, were about to retire to concentration camps. Their commander, General Yasuji Okamura, for many years overlord of all North China, brooded in the gloomy rooms of the Foreign Office in Nanking; his last function is that of "chief liaison officer" between his own stranded army and Chinese headquarters. There were 1,100,000 Japanese soldiers below the Great Wall in China when the war ended-far more than U.S. estimates before V-J day. The last 400,000 troops, who at Chungking's direction have policed railroads and held approaches...
...Nanking, Doubt. At his Nanking headquarters, General Yasuji Okamura surrendered 1,000,000 Jap troops in China to General Ho Ying-chin...
...days later the Japanese Commander in Chief in China, Lieut. General Yasuji Okamura, agreed to surrender all his sea, air and ground forces, from Manchuria's southern border to Formosa and northern Indo-China. Next day, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Central Government troops entered Nanking. They were back in China's capital just seven years, nine months and five days since they had been forced to leave the city to a brutal fate that shook the world...