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Debris from the Titan was brought ashore by deep-sea robots on Wednesday as the
US Coast Guard continues recovery operations following the sub’s catastrophic
implosion.

The Titan’s wreckage was seen for the first time in pictures after the Coast
Guard announced on Thursday (23 June) that ROVs (remotely-operated vehicles)
found its chambers in a sea of debris 1,600ft from the Titanic.

Pelagic Research Services, the company that operated the ROV that made the
previous debris findings, said on Wednesday that its team had successfully
completed off-shore operations and was now in the process of demobilization
after ten days of work. The company said a press conference will be held later
today.

The photos shared by the Associated Press showed what appeared to be several
pieces covered with white tarps being unloaded from the American ships Sycamore
and Horizon Arctic at a port in St John’s, Newfoundland.




The Independent has reached out to the Coast Guard for comment.





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On August 14, 1945, Americans received the news that Japanese Emperor Hirohito
announced his country’s surrender. By August 30, Gen. Douglas MacArthur was in
Tokyo, and the American occupation of Japan had begun. On the morning of Sunday,
Sept. 2, 1945, a small delegation of Japanese officials boarded the massive
battleship USS Missouri to formally sign the instrument of surrender.

The descriptions of the two sides at the official surrender ceremony are
important. Looking at photographs of the event, the Japanese appear incredibly
small in comparison to the massive American and Allied officers, their ships,
and their crews. It was probably a humbling spectacle for the Japanese, and in
all likelihood, it was meant to be.

There were many opportunities to sign a formal surrender elsewhere. Emperor
Hirohito announced Japan’s surrender to the Imperial Japanese military on August
17, and two days later, representatives of Japan met with MacArthur in the
Philippine capital of Manila to discuss the general’s plans for the occupation
of the country. The document might have been signed there.




Within days, MacArthur was on his way to Tokyo and Marines were landing on the
Japanese home islands for occupation duty. Still, many preparations were made
for the formal surrender aboard the Missouri, including color filming of the
event and meticulous seating arrangements. The United States even had a special
flag flown in for the ceremony, the same flag used by Commodore Matthew Perry
when he forcibly opened Japan to trade in 1853.

Since a naval vessel is considered sovereign territory, forcing the Japanese to
sail through a fleet of other nations’ ships in the middle of their own capital
city as thousands of enemy sailors looked on was itself a message: Japan had
been defeated and there was no getting around it. Furthermore, as customs might
have dictated, none of the Japanese representatives were saluted when they came
aboard.




Japanese culture is centered around “saving face,” the outward appearance of
respect. Everything involved in the formal surrender ceremony, from the size of
the desk to the differences between the two copies of the surrender documents –
the Allies, leatherbound, the Japanese, bound in canvas – was meant to humiliate
the Japanese government and military in front of the Japanese people.

Upon arriving in Tokyo, MacArthur was firm but even-handed. He forbade Allied
personnel from eating the Japanese food, because it was in short supply due to
Allied war efforts (a famine would occur the next year). He also forbade anyone
from flying the Japanese “rising sun” flag. Shortly after the formal signing
ceremony, he initiated investigations into Japanese war crimes.




MacArthur’s immediate post-signing concerns included what to do with Hirohito
himself. Some in the US government believed that Japanese militarism would only
die if Hirohito were forced to abdicate. Others believe Hirohito’s continued
rule was essential to the Japanese surrender. Moreover, many in Japan believed
American intentions were to wipe out Japanese culture, and that Hirohito’s
removal was part of that cleansing.



MacArthur and the U.S. Army command had the perfect answer to this tightrope of
diplomacy that could reignite the war. The Army made the emperor subordinate to
the occupation commander.

MacArthur, either implicitly or unaware, protected the royal family from war
crimes tribunals. His plan was to use the emperor as a wedge in the minds of
Japanese people: the emperor had been betrayed by the military and now the
emperor was going to lead the people out of the horrible aftermath – for better
or for worse.

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