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Heijō Shrine (Japanese: 平壌神社, Hepburn: Heijō jinja, Korean: 평양신사) was a Shinto shrine in Pyongyang, Korea during the Japanese colonial period. It was established in 1913 [1] and destroyed in 1945. [2] Its name derived from the Japanese name for Pyongyang during its occupation of Korea.
Of nineteen tenshu that survived into the 20th century, six were destroyed during Allied air raids on Japan in the Second World War, [6] and another, the donjon of Matsumae Castle, was destroyed by fire in 1949. [7] However, many tenshu have been rebuilt in modern times; examples are Osaka castle in 1931, Hiroshima castle in 1958 and Ōzu ...
The term was found in English in a 1937 report on the Second Sino-Japanese War. The retreating Chinese forces burned crops and destroyed infrastructure including cities to sabotage the logistics of the advancing Japanese forces.
The Hōjō regency however continued until Nitta Yoshisada destroyed it in 1333 at the Siege of Kamakura. It was under the regency that Kamakura acquired many of its best and most prestigious temples and shrines, for example Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū, Kenchō-ji, Engaku-ji, Jufuku-ji, Jōchi-ji, and Zeniarai Benten Shrine.
The location towards which the group had been heading was a few meters lower than the tsunami and was completely engulfed by it. Unbeknownst to the group, the tsunami height warnings had been raised to 10 meters at the time from 6 meters at 15:14 JST; the group’s elevation was around 6 to 7 meters. [citation needed]
The term became another word for the country or the location of Japan itself. The term can be used interchangeably with Toyoashihara no Nakatsukuni. A-un (阿吽, lit. ' Om ') – In Shinto-Buddhism, a-un is the transliteration in Japanese of the two syllables "a" and "hūṃ", written in Devanagari as अहूँ (the syllable, Om).
The British and United States aircraft dispatched against airfields claimed to have destroyed 43 Japanese aircraft and damaged another 77. The pilots of these aircraft also claimed the destruction of several railway locomotives. [16] Allied losses in the attacks made on 18 July were 12 U.S. Navy aircraft, two Royal Navy aircraft and 18 aircrew.
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