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| 1945 August 8 |
| | | The USSR declares war on Japan, two days after an atom bomb has been dropped on Hiroshima | |
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| 1945 August 9 |
| | | A second atom bomb is dropped from a US plane, this time over Nagasaki | |
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| 1945 August 14 |
| | | The emperor Hirohito, on the first occasion that his people have heard his voce, declares on radio that defeat must be accepted | |
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| 1945 August 15 |
| | | TheAllies celebrate V-J Day – victory over Japan and the end of the war | |
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| 1945 August 29 |
| | | Douglas MacArthur – in his role as Supreme Commander, Allied Powers – is appointed to administer postwar Japan | |
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| 1945 September 2 |
| | | World War II ends officially with the surrender of Japan, formally accepted by Douglas MacArthur | |
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| 1946 January I |
| | | The Japanese emperor Hirohito renounces his traditional divine status and declares that he is mortal | |
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| 1946 March 27 |
| | | Twenty-five Japanese defendants are put on trial in Tokyo, charged with war crimes | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Ballerina Mikiko Matsuyama and her husband establish a family-run balllet company in Tokyo | |
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| 1948 December 23 |
| | | Japanese premier Tojo Hideki is convicted in the Tokyo war crimes trial and is hanged | |
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