 Soon after, she struck a naval mine and began to settle, but emergency repairs contained the flooding.On 15 August 1945, it docked at Osaka for repairs and surrendered to the Allied Forces in September 1945.General Douglas MacArthur, as military governor of Japan in 1945, encouraged the defeated Japan to continue whaling in order to provide a cheap source of meat to its starving people, and millions of dollars in oil for the USA and Europe.