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Hideki Tojo was born in the Kōjimachi district of Tokyo on December 30, 1884, [2] as the third son of Hidenori Tojo, a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army. [3] Under the bakufu , Japanese society was divided rigidly into four castes; the merchants, artisans, peasants, and the samurai .
The Instructions for the Battlefield (Kyūjitai: 戰陣訓; Shinjitai: 戦陣訓, Senjinkun, Japanese pronunciation: [se̞nʑiŋkũ͍ɴ]) was a pocket-sized military code issued to soldiers in the Imperial Japanese forces on 8 January 1941 in the name of then-War Minister Hideki Tojo. [1] It was in use at the outbreak of the Pacific War.
Parade uniform of Japanese military attaché, Major General Onodera Makoto, 1930s. Resembling the Imperial German Army M1842/M1856 dunkelblau uniform, the Meiji 19 1886 version tunic was the dark blue, single-breasted, had a low standing collar and no pockets.
Until recently, the location of executed wartime Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo's remains was one of World War II's biggest mysteries in the nation he once led. Now, a Japanese university ...
Japanese soldiers were given a pamphlet titled "Read Only This - And The War Can Be Won" to those going to what was British Malaya about what to expect. [61] Snipers were known to utilize spiked shoes to climb trees. Water purifiers, anti-mosquito equipment and inspect repellent were given to soldiers to adapt to tropical and jungle areas. [62]
Hideki Tōjō: Concurrent chief of the Munitions Ministry, as Army figure in same Ministry; Nobusuke Kishi: As sometimes replaced at Gen Tojo in lead of Munitions Minister; Ginjirō Fujiwara: in charge of the Munitions Ministry; Shigeru Yoshida: Munitions Minister; Teijirō Toyoda: Marine and Munitions Ministry, as Navy figure in such Ministry
‘National policy films’ or propaganda pictures used in World War II included combat films such as Mud and Soldiers (1939, 土と兵隊) and Five Scouts (1938, 五人の斥候兵), spy films such as The Spy isn't Dead (1942, 間諜未だ死せず) and They're After You (1942, あなたは狙われている) and lavish period pictures such as ...
The Nakajima Ki-44 Shoki (鍾馗, "Devil Queller") [2] was a single-seat fighter-interceptor which was developed by the Nakajima Aircraft Company and operated by the Imperial Japanese Army from 1942 to 1945 during World War II. Its official designation was Army Type 2 Single-Seat Fighter (二式単座戦闘機) and its Allied reporting name was ...