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The 42 Aleut inhabitants who survived the Japanese invasion were taken to a prison camp near Otaru, Hokkaido. Sixteen of them died while they were imprisoned. [8] Charles Jones was killed by the Japanese forces immediately after the invasion because he refused to fix the radio he destroyed to prevent the occupying troops from using it.
An Imperial decree in July 1899 established Otaru as an open port for trading with the United States and the United Kingdom. [3] The city flourished well as the financial and business center in Hokkaido as well as the trade port with Japanese ruled southern Sakhalin until the 1920s. Otaru was redesignated as a city on August 1, 1922.
The Battle of Attu (codenamed Operation Landcrab), [4] which took place on 11–30 May 1943, was fought between forces of the United States, aided by Canadian reconnaissance and fighter-bomber support, and Japan on Attu Island off the coast of the Territory of Alaska as part of the Aleutian Islands campaign during the American Theater and the Pacific Theater.
Hiroo Onoda (Japanese: 小野田 寛郎, Hepburn: Onoda Hiroo, 19 March 1922 – 16 January 2014) was a Japanese soldier who served as a second lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.
The Mongols slaughtered the inhabitants of Tsushima and about 1000 Japanese soldiers were killed on Iki island. [32] When the Mongols arrived on Japan's mainland of Kyushu they encountered the first real Japanese army. [33] During the Battle of Akasaka the Japanese won with a surprise attack by the forces of Kikuchi Takefusa.
The Otaru City General Museum is a museum established in 1956 (Showa 31) using the former Nippon Yusen Otaru branch in Ironai.Originally established as the Otaru City Museum, it was a museum that focused on the humanities, art and nature; it then moved to the former Otaru Warehouse, (which is now the Canal Museum), in 1985.
A Japanese soldier that surrendered at Kerama Retto, Ryukyu Islands. Despite Japanese treatment of the Allied prisoners, the Allies respected the international conventions and treated Japanese prisoners in the camps well. However, in some instances, Japanese soldiers were executed after surrendering (see Allied war crimes). [2]
In July 2007, the boots and foot bones of a Japanese soldier were found on the island, and on May 23, 2008, the remains of two more Japanese soldiers were discovered by U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Richard Brahm, a public affairs specialist who was a documentarian for the remains recovery team. [17]