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'Japanese Surrender'

Maybe not what we thought!

We are aware of the Japanese surrender ceremony that took place at Bouganville on 8th September 1945. And that many of the Royal Australian Navy war ships were stationed around the Pacific near Japanese surrender points in Borneo, Hong Kong, Timor, New Guinea and Nauru. But my question is, was there an ulterior motive to this surrender? Did the Japanese use this to mask a more sinister plan? A plan that would have the capacity to effect ever Australian citizen?

There are reports of sighting of Japanese mini subs off the surrounding coastline of Victoria in the weeks and days prior to the Japanese surrender ceremony. The sightings, by Merchant Navy personnel and coast watchers on the Australian mainland, coupled with found documentation and letters of correspondence between what looks like Japanese military and an anonymous third part suggest that the was ceremony was a decoy for a far greater agenda. The incursion of troops onto Australian mainland.

There is no sound evidence, however, to link the gap between conspiracy and fact. Reported sighting were never fully confirmed as the personnel we never officially identified, and the documentation I have gathered has been dismissed by Australian authorities as having 'an inconclusive time authenticity'. But when you look at the anomalies and place it conjunction with other Japanese attacks on Australian territory, the plot seems feasible. If invasion was on the agenda by Japanese military, then the attacks and raids on Australian territory would be considered as unsuccessful. So it is not unreasonable to consider that the sightings of Japanese water and air crafts in VIctoria allude to a desire to attack and a possible invasion.

"On 19 August 1945, Supreme Commander General Douglas MacArthur had ordered that there were to be no landings or surrender documents signed in the field until after the main Japanese surrender ceremony on board USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945. This enforced delay meant that the newly liberated Prisoners of War (POWs) had to remain in their camps, some for up to a month after 15 August, the day that hostilities officially ceased."

WW2 Australian Government Article

This also meant that that Australian warships attentions was locked around the Pacific near the Japanese surrender points. With the diverted attention of Australian and Allied personnel, the success rate of such an operation increased dramatically. Raising the question of who else might have been involved?