[ typewriter clacking ]
[ airplane engines ]
[ radio chatter ]
[ bomb explodes ]
[ typewriter clacking ]
BONNER FELLERS:
brought to its knees
by the most terrible weapon
the atomic bomb.
The country is a smoking ruin.
Despite this, their ruler,
is still worshipped
[ soldiers shouting ]
We have placed
on the protected list
until we decide
[ film clicks through projector gate ]
FELLERS: I fear the Japan
will be scarred beyond recognition.
I'm seeing
but they only tell part of the story.
[ birds chirping ]
[ woman laughing ]
[ laughing ]
General Fellers,
the old man wants you up front.
ADJUTANT:
I'm told there will be
lining the road
ADJUTANT:
and the cars they've
are not armored.
The snipers could take us out
Fellers?
FELLERS: Sir, the Emperor
in ways that were unimaginable
He did so by ordering them
without ever using the word
He simply asked that they
And I do not doubt
nor to his order to surrender, sir.
Get through to Washington and tell them
and there's nothing to worry about.
That'll do.
Gentlemen, we will take
when we step off this airplane.
Nothing will impress them more
than a show of absolute fearlessness.
If they don't know
they will get the picture today.
Now, let's show them
some good old-fashioned
[ correspondents chattering,
General! General Mac!
Welcome to Japan, Mac.
Good to see you.
This way, sir!
FELLERS: The worst war
Now is the time to win
or impose it if we have to.
We are the occupying power...
but we must be seen as liberators,
MaCARTHUR: Not your usual
They avert their gaze
Japan has surrendered,
ever devised,
Emperor Hirohito,
by his people as a living god.
this Sacred Son of Heaven
what to do with him.
I fell in love with
aerial reconnaissance photos,
General MaCArthur, sir.
2,000 Imperial troops
we'll have to drive, and, um...
We have 100 men, sir,
requisitioned for us
at any point, General.
rallied his people
only a month ago.
to surrender
"surrender. "
"endure the unendurable. "
their allegiance to him,
I've consulted my experts,
no weapons with us
they're licked by now,
American swagger.
cameras clicking ]
in all history is over.
this fragile peace,
not conquerors.
surrender formation.