Message to Japanese soldier from ex-wartime enemy in Philippines shows bond of friendship
A message of friendship apparently sent to an Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant who served in the Philippines during World ...
WWII veteran recounts escape from sinking Japanese navy carrier
On a cloudless day off the Philippines coast, Shigetoshi Kaneko held onto floating debris while adrift, clinging to hope ...
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The Arisaka: The Birth of the First Japanese “Smokeless” Rifle
The end of the Edo Period brought forth several innovations in military technology to improve upon Japan’s two-century-long ...
Hayao Miyazaki criticizes Japan wartime past in award speech
Acclaimed anime director Hayao Miyazaki, who won a Ramon Magsaysay Award known as "Asia’s Nobel Prize," used his acceptance ...
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Report provides look at why Japan went to war
Jiro Akimaru, former Lieutenant Colonel of the Imperial Japanese Army, in 1991. In a 1991 interview about decision-making leading up to the war, Akimaru said that even within the military ...
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Nephew recalls how propaganda turned his sailor uncle into a ‘god’
Naomasa, who was 6 at that time, watched as Imperial Japanese Navy Minister Shigetaro Shimada and other officials, dressed in military uniforms, entered the thatch-roofed house. The house belonged ...
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The scale of Japanese radio deception in the days before Pearl Harbor
Explanations have run the gamut from the incompetence of the U.S. military commanders in Honolulu ... denial and deception developed by the Imperial Japanese Navy’s general staff and its ...