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Truman agreed with Stimson, and Kyoto was temporarily removed from the target list. [79] Groves attempted to restore Kyoto to the target list in July, but Stimson remained adamant. [80] [81] On 25 July, Nagasaki was put on the target list in place of Kyoto. It was a major military port, one of Japan's largest shipbuilding and repair centers ...
Capital punishment is a legal penalty for murder in Japan, and is applied in cases of multiple murder or aggravated single murder. Executions in Japan are carried out by hanging, and the country has seven execution chambers, all located in major cities.
This is a list of victims of Nazism who were noted for their achievements. Many on the lists below were of Jewish and Polish origin, although Soviet POWs , Jehovah's Witnesses , Serbs , Catholics , Roma and dissidents were also murdered.
The overall number of estimated deaths in the war in Donbas from 6 April 2014 to 31 December 2021 was 14,200–14,400. This included about 6,500 pro-Russian separatist fighters, 4,400 Ukrainian fighters, and 3,404 civilians. [1] This number includes non-combat military deaths, as well as deaths from mines and unexploded ordnance.
The Three Alls policy (Japanese: 三光作戦, Hepburn: Sankō Sakusen, (Chinese: 三光政策; pinyin: Sānguāng Zhèngcè) was a Japanese scorched earth policy adopted in China during World War II, the three "alls" being "kill all, burn all, loot all". [1]
The raid did little damage to Japan's war capability but was a significant propaganda victory for the United States. [6] Launched at longer range than planned when the task force encountered a Japanese picket boat , all of the attacking aircraft either crashed or ditched short of the airfields designated for landing.
A ban on reporting the death count was obeyed by all newspapers, while officials claimed only five people had died. On October 21, almost two months after the massacre began, local police arrested 23 Koreans, simultaneously lifting the ban so that the initial reporting on the full scale of the massacre was mixed with the false arrests.
The jisei, or death poem, of Kuroki Hiroshi, a Japanese sailor who died in a Kaiten suicide torpedo accident on 7 September 1944. It reads: "This brave man, so filled with love for his country that he finds it difficult to die, is calling out to his friends and about to die".