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The Japanese military before and during World War II committed numerous atrocities against civilian and military personnel. Its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, prior to a declaration of war and without warning killed 2,403 neutral military personnel and civilians and wounded 1,247 others.
Japanese holdouts (Japanese: 残留日本兵, romanized: zanryū nipponhei, lit. 'remaining Japanese soldiers') were soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) and Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the Pacific Theatre of World War II who continued fighting after the surrender of Japan at the end of the war.
Japanese World War II flying aces (54 P) Japanese World War II pilots (4 C, 10 P) K. Japanese military personnel killed in World War II (3 C, 32 P)
US Marines pass a dead Japanese soldier in a destroyed village, April 1945. American soldiers of the 77th Infantry Division listen impassively to radio reports of Victory in Europe Day on 8 May 1945. Soldiers of the 96th Infantry Division attack Japanese positions on Big Apple Ridge. US Operations in Southern Okinawa
Australian and Dutch soldiers in Japanese captivity (Tarsau, Thailand 1943) Japanese treatment of POWs in World War II was significantly worse (less humane) than their treatment of Russian prisoners it held during the Russo-Japanese War and German prisoners it held during World War I (when it was a member of the Allies/Entente).
A map (front) of Imperial Japanese-run prisoner-of-war camps within the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere known during World War II from 1941 to 1945. Back of map of Imperial Japanese-run prisoner-of-war camps with a list of the camps categorized geographically and an additional detailed map of camps located on the Japanese archipelago .
Operation Downfall was the proposed Allied plan for the invasion of the Japanese home islands near the end of World War II.The planned operation was canceled when Japan surrendered following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Soviet declaration of war, and the invasion of Manchuria. [1]
An Australian soldier inspects Japanese artillery rounds abandoned at Ioribaiwa. These rounds had been carried the length of the track by Japanese soldiers. Even before the battle at Mission Ridge had concluded, Rowell had issued orders recalling Potts to Port Moresby.