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Japanese settlement in the Territory of Papua and German New Guinea (in what now constitutes modern-day Papua New Guinea) dates back to the early 20th century when migrants from Japan established copra plantations and trading businesses in the islands, specifically Rabaul. The Japanese community remained small throughout the first half of the ...
Japanese settlement in Papua New Guinea; M. Emi Maria This page was last edited on 12 February 2024, at 14:07 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The New Guinea campaign of the Pacific War lasted from January 1942 until the end of the war in August 1945. During the initial phase in early 1942, the Empire of Japan invaded the Territory of New Guinea on 23 January and Territory of Papua on 21 July and overran western New Guinea (part of the Netherlands East Indies) beginning on 29 March.
Papua New Guinea: A political history (1979) Knauft, Bruce M. South Coast New Guinea Cultures: History, Comparison, Dialectic (1993) excerpt and text search; McCosker, Anne. Masked Eden: A History of the Australians in New Guinea (1998) Waiko. John. Short History of Papua New Guinea (1993) Waiko, John Dademo. Papua New Guinea: A History of Our ...
It was the first European settlement on the Sepik. The settlement's main industry was milling timber. [3] To facilitate this, one the first railways in the country was built to transport timber from the river to the sawmill. It was drawn by buffalo. [4] The town was occupied during the Japanese invasion of Papua New Guinea in 1942. [5]
The Huon Peninsula campaign was a series of battles fought in north-eastern Papua New Guinea in 1943–1944 during the Second World War.The campaign formed the initial part of an offensive that the Allies launched in the Pacific in late 1943 and resulted in the Japanese being pushed north from Lae to Sio on the northern coast of New Guinea over the course of a four-month period.
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Japanese settlement in Papua New Guinea; L. Jacob Le Maire This page was last edited on 23 August 2024, at 06:48 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...