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US to restore WWII airfield used in Japan atomic bombing as China tensions rise
The US Air Force is restoring North Field, the World War II airbase on Tinian Island that launched atomic bombings on Japan.
Bloody history: Japanese army slaughtered more than 100,000 Filipino civilians in desperate revenge in Manila Massacre
On August 29, 2024, a spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in the Philippines gave a stern response to the Japanese ambassador ...
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The War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
August 8, 1945, 11pm Tokyo time The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Japanese-held Manchuria in the largest land offensive of the Pacific War. August 9, 1945 Japan learns that ...
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Japan's Carnival War
Japan in the Asia-Pacific War years is usually remembered for economic deprivation, political repression, and cultural barrenness. Benjamin Uchiyama argues that although the war created the ...
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Prewar accounts blame ‘mood of the time’ for start of Pacific War
The Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor on Oahu island in Hawaii in the early morning of Dec. 8, 1941, Japan time, opening the Pacific War, which lasted more than three years and eight ...
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Report provides look at why Japan went to war
In December 1941, Imperial Japan opened the Pacific theater of World War Two with two acts of stunning shortsightedness. The attack on Pearl Harbor and the near-simultaneous invasion of the ...
Japanese sailor was last of the crew that started war in the Pacific
Masamitsu Yoshioka Navy flyer Born 1918, Noromachi, Ishikawa Perfecture, Japan; died August 31, Tokyo, aged 106.
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Temple bells part of scrap metal used to fuel Japan’s war effort
The Hongwanji school officially supported Japan’s efforts to gear up for ... a year after the Pacific War started. Tetsuya Uno, the 57-year-old chief priest at Kakumeiji, said the bell was ...
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Short term cause -Defeat in the war with Japan
Russia benefited from economic expansion into the Far East and increased access to the Pacific ... and Japan had an interest in acquiring land for herself. Japanese negotiations to avoid war ...
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China, Russia plan naval war games in Sea of Japan this month
China and Russia are set to conduct a new round of joint naval exercises in the Sea of Japan later this month ... a fifth joint maritime patrol in the Pacific Ocean, with China also participating ...
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The War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
August 8, 1945, 11pm Tokyo time The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and invades Japanese-held Manchuria in the largest land offensive of the Pacific War. August 9, 1945 Japan learns that ...
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Japan scrambles fighters after Russian aircraft fly over archipelago
Japan has scrambled its fighter jets. This happened because of Russian planes that flew over the archipelago for the first ...