Question: When were the Japanese defeated in WWII?
About the article "World War II", section "Pacific (1942–43)".

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Japanese resistance to the Empire of Japan in World War II covers individual Japanese people, and Japanese organizations who were resisters to the militarist Empire of Japan during World War II.
Although there were Japanese resisters in Japan during WWII, organized resistance in Japan was absent during WWII, which contrasts starkly with German Resistance to Nazism, and the Italian resistance movement. 
  February – C. S. Lewis's "The Screwtape Letters" first published in book format in England.
February 1 – WWII: The Command staff of the Eighth Air Force reaches England.
February 2 – WWII: President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an executive order directing the internment of Japanese Americans and the seizure of their property.
February 3 – WWII: Rommel suspends his offensive in Cyrenaica.
February 7 – United States Maritime Commission fleet operations transferred to the War Shipping Administration (lasting until September 1, 1946).
February 8 * António Óscar Carmona is elected president of Portugal.
* WWII: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.
* Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States.
February 9 – The ocean liner catches fire while being converted into the troopship USS "Lafayette" (AP-53) for WWII.
February 10 – In the early hours of the morning the capsizes at pier 88 in New York City.
February 11 – Operation Cerberus A flotilla of Kriegsmarine ships dash from Brest through the English Channel to northern ports; the British fail to sink any of them.
February 15 – WWII: Singapore surrenders to Japanese forces.
February 18 – WWII: More than 200 American sailors die in Newfoundland when the runs aground near Chambers Cove and the runs aground at Lawn Point.
February 19 – WWII: * Japanese warplanes bomb Darwin, Australia.
* A returning Japanese fighter plane crashes on Melville Island (Australia) and its pilot, Hajime Toyoshima, becomes the first Japanese captured on Australian soil when indigenous resident Matthias Ulungura takes him prisoner.
* President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066 allowing the United States military to define areas as exclusionary zones.
These zones affect the Japanese on the West Coast, and Germans and Italians primarily on the East Coast.
February 19-23 – WWII: Battle of Sittang Bridge – British forces retreat to the Sittang River.
February 20 – Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first U.S. Navy WWII flying ace.
February 22 – General George Marshall transmits a direct order to General MacArthur in President Roosevelt's name, ordering MacArthur himself to turn over command of the Philippines to a subordinate and report to Australia to assume command of the large American force being built up there.
The orders are worded to allow MacArthur to choose the exact moment of his departure; for various reasons, he will not leave until March 12 (Eastern Date).
February 23 – The fires 17 high-explosive shells toward an oil refinery near Santa Barbara, California, causing little damage.
February 24 * "Struma" disaster: , carrying Jewish refugees from Axis-allied Romania to British-administered Palestine, is torpedoed and sunk by the , killing about 791 men, women and children, with only one survivor.
* Propaganda: The "Voice of America" begins broadcasting.
February 25 * The Princess Elizabeth registers for war service in the U.K. * Battle of Los Angeles: Over 1,400 AA shells are fired at an unidentified, slow-moving object in the skies over Los Angeles.
The appearance of the object triggers an immediate wartime blackout over most of Southern California, with thousands of air raid wardens being deployed throughout the city.
In total there are 6 deaths.
Despite the several-hour barrage no planes are downed.
February 26 * The worst coal dust explosion to date, in Honkeiko, China, claims 1,549 lives.
* The 14th Academy Awards ceremony is held in Los Angeles; "How Green Was My Valley" wins Best Picture.
February 27 – WWII: Battle of the Java Sea: An allied (ABDA) task force of 14 vessels under Dutch command, trying to stem a Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies, is defeated by a 19 vessel Japanese task force in the Java Sea; 2.300 sailors die, including the commander, admiral Karel Doorman; Japanese attain naval hegemony in East-Asia  
  March 2 – WWII: Battle of the Bismarck Sea – United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.
March 4 – The 15th Academy Awards ceremony is held in Los Angeles.
March 8 – WWII: American forces are attacked by Japanese troops on Hill 700 in Bougainville, in a battle that lasts five days.
March 13 – WWII: On Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.
March 26 – WWII – Battle of the Komandorski Islands: In the Aleutian Islands, the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese troops attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
March 31 – Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!"
opens on Broadway, heralds a new era in "integrated" stage musicals, becomes an instantaneous stage classic, and goes on to be Broadway's longest-running musical up to that time (1948).  
  February 1 – WWII: Pacific War – United States troops land in the Marshall Islands.
February 2 – The first issue of "Human Events" is published in Washington, D.C..  February 3 – WWII: United States troops capture the Marshall Islands.
February 7 – WWII: At Anzio, Italian forces launch a counteroffensive.
February 8 – WWII: * 2,765 drown when torpedoes "Lima Maru".
* 2,670 drown when torpedoes "Petrella".
February 14 – WWII: An anti-Japanese revolt breaks out on Java.
February 15 – WWII – Battle of Monte Cassino: The monastery atop Monte Cassino is destroyed by Allied bombing.
February 17 – WWII: Pacific War – The Battle of Eniwetok begins when U.S. forces invade the atoll in the Marshall Islands.
February 20 – WWII: * The "Big Week" begins with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
* The United States takes Eniwetok Island.
February 22 – United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe organized from the Eighth Air Force's strategic planning staff; subsuming strategic planning for all US Army Air Forces in Europe and Africa.
February 23 – WWII * The Chechens and Ingush are forcibly deported to Central Asia.
* Battle of Eniwetok concludes when U.S. forces secure the last islands in the Eniwetok Atoll.
February 24 – WWII: 7,998 drown when torpedoes "Ryusei Maru" and "Tango Maru".
February 26 * Kurt Gerron begins shooting the Nazi propaganda film "Theresienstadt" in Theresienstadt concentration camp.
He and many others who feature in it are transferred to Auschwitz and gassed on its completion.
* First woman appointed to the substantive rank of captain in the United States Navy Nurse Corps, Sue S. Dauser.
February 29 – WWII: Pacific War – Admiralty Islands campaign (Operation Brewer) opens when U.S. forces land on Los Negros Island in the Admiralty Islands.  
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