Why did the japanese surrender in southeast asia during world war two?

Singapore was selected for several political reasons, chief of which was to reassert a British claim to its pre-war territories, and to do so with a member of the Royal family presiding. The least known theater of action in the Pacific War was CBI, China-Burma-India. Implicit in the name is an order of importance the countries had for the US, which did the greatest amount of all Allied combat.

The US interest was to keep China in the war, because the Japanese had to keep about one-half of their army there as a garrison force. To do that after Japan had occupied SE Asia required the logistics pipeline fo the Ledo Road, and the aerial route over the Himalayas, the "Hump." Northern Burma was a transit point for the road.

Beyond that, the US would provide NO support to UK forces for any advance against Japanese forces in Burma, Malaysia, or Singapore. There was great friction, even hostilities between the Allied commands in the theater because the US opposed the restoration of UK ... more.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

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