[ 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.