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  2. Japanese occupation of German colonial possessions

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    During World War I, Japan was in an alliance with Britain and decided to go to war with Germany. Japan started to besiege German possessions in China at first. Japan then sent the Imperial Japanese Navy out to the Pacific islands held by the Germans. [4] The British however were annoyed by the Japanese aggression in the Pacific as they told ...

  3. Japan during World War I - Wikipedia

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    Japan sent Germany an ultimatum on 15 August 1914, which went unanswered; Japan then formally declared war on Germany on 23 August 1914 in the name of the Emperor Taishō. [5] As Vienna refused to withdraw the Austro-Hungarian cruiser SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth from Qingdao, Japan declared war on Austria-Hungary, too, on 25 August 1914. [6]

  4. Yang Kyoungjong - Wikipedia

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    The current description on the US National Archives refers to him as a "young Japanese man". [6] In the 1994 book D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II, historian Stephen E. Ambrose wrote about an interview with an American officer, Robert B. Brewer, where Brewer recounted the capture of four Koreans in Wehrmacht uniforms ...

  5. Japanese entry into World War I - Wikipedia

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    The onset of the First World War in Europe eventually showed how far German–Japanese relations had truly deteriorated. On 7 August 1914, only three days after Britain declared war on the German Empire, the Japanese government received an official request from the British government for assistance in destroying the German raiders of the Kaiserliche Marine in and around Chinese waters.

  6. History of Japan–Korea relations - Wikipedia

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    In 2015, relations between the two nations reached a high point when South Korea and Japan addressed the issue of comfort women, used by the Japanese military during World War II. Fumio Kishida , the Japanese Foreign Minister, pledged that the Japanese government would donate 1 billion yen (US$8.3 million, 2015) to help pay for the care of the ...

  7. List of World War I monuments and memorials - Wikipedia

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    Finch Hatton War Memorial; First World War Honour Board, Lands Administration Building; First World War Honour Board, National Australia Bank (308 Queen Street) Forest Hill War Memorial; Gair Park; Gayndah War Memorial; Goombungee War Memorial; Goomeri Hall of Memory; Goomeri War Memorial Clock; Goondiwindi War Memorial; Greenmount War Memorial

  8. Siege of Tsingtao - Wikipedia

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    The siege of Tsingtao (German: Belagerung von Tsingtau; Japanese: 青島の戦い; simplified Chinese: 青岛战役; traditional Chinese: 青島戰役) was the attack on the German port of Qingdao (Tsingtao) from Jiaozhou Bay during World War I by Japan and the United Kingdom.

  9. Germany–Japan relations - Wikipedia

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    After Japan aligned itself with Britain in 1902, Germany and Japan became enemies in World War I. Japan declared war on the German Empire in 1914 and seized key German possessions in China and the Pacific. In the 1930s, both countries adopted aggressive militaristic attitudes toward their respective regions.