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The location of the city of Nago (red) on Okinawa Island into which the village of Katsuyama has since been merged. The 1945 Katsuyama killing incident was the killing of three African-American United States Marines in Katsuyama near Nago , Okinawa after the Battle of Okinawa on July 10, 1945, to August 13, 1946.
Thae Yong-ho, North Korea's former Deputy Ambassador to the United Kingdom who defected to the South, claimed in his book Passcode to the Third Floor Secretariat that the controversy regarding the return of Yokota's remains was unexpected by Kim Jong-il and caused significant infighting between the ministry and Kim Jong-Il's staff, leading Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Kang Sok-ju to ...
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 .
During World War II, Japanese troops forced hundreds of thousands of women from Australia, Burma, China, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, East Timor, New Guinea and other countries into sexual enslavement for Japanese soldiers; however, the majority of the women were from Korea. [8]
The San Francisco Comfort Women memorial is a monument dedicated to comfort women before and during World War II. It is built in remembrance of the girls and women that were sexually enslaved by the Imperial Japanese Army through deceit, coercion, and brutal force. [ 1 ]
Wars, particularly World War II, have accounted for a majority of the Japanese burial sites located outside of Japan. There is a cemetery for the Imperial Japanese Navy in Malta , multiple sites for POWs in Siberia , and many Pacific War sites, which include Japanese cemeteries, cenotaphs, and remains in the Nanpō Islands , the Philippines ...
World War II Second Battle of Guam Shōichi Yokoi ( 横井 庄一 , Yokoi Shōichi , 31 March 1915 – 22 September 1997) was a Japanese soldier who served as a sergeant in the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during the Second World War , and was one of the last three Japanese holdouts to be found after the end of hostilities in 1945.
12 February 1945 – De La Salle College massacre of 16 brothers of the college, rape of two civilian women and one attempted intercourse with a dead woman. [18] A total of 41 were killed. 14 February 1945 – Ateneo de Manila, where about 100 non-combatants were killed from bombs thrown by the Japanese. [19]