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The occupation of Japan 1945-1952: Tokyo, Washington, and Okinawa. Tokyo: Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture. ISBN 978-4-86658-125-5. Gayn, Mark (1989). Japan Diary. New York: Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4629-1152-3. Hirano, Kyoko (1992). Mr. Smith goes to Tokyo: Japanese cinema under the American occupation, 1945-1952.
Manila during the Japanese occupation. The Japanese occupation of the Philippines (Filipino: Pananakop ng mga Hapones sa Pilipinas; Japanese: 日本のフィリピン占領, romanized: Nihon no Firipin Senryō) occurred between 1942 and 1945, when the Japanese Empire occupied the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II.
Son Ngoc Thanh would take over the position of prime minister following the surrender of Japan, serving until French restoration in October 1945. [9] [10] The Japanese occupation of Cambodia ended with the official surrender of Japan in August 1945. After Allied military units entered Cambodia, the Japanese military forces present in the ...
On 29 November 1941, Operation Gi [2] (for Gilbert Islands) was decided within the Japanese 4th Fleet and departed from Truk, headquarters of the South Seas Mandate.The flagship was the minelayer Okinoshima, and the operation included the minelayers Tsugaru and Tenyo Maru and cruiser Tokiwa, Nagata Maru, escorted by Asanagi and Yūnagi of the Destroyer Division 29/Section 1.
For example, the price of rice increased from $5 per 100 catties (about 60 kg or 130 lb) to $5,000 by the end of the occupation between August and September 1945. The Japanese issued ration cards, also known as "Peace Living Certificates", [10] which were very precious to the people at that time, to limit the amount of resources distributed to ...
Japanese paratroopers of the 2nd Yokosuka Naval Landing Force under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Genzo Watanabe (standing, top left) on a transport ship heading to Borneo prior to their invasion in December 1941. The Japanese invasion plan called for the British territories to be taken and held by the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) and the ...
The damaged battleship USS California, listing to port after being hit by Japanese aerial torpedoes and bombs, is seen off Ford Island during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, U.S. December 7, 1941.
As such, most of the Dutch East Indies was still under occupation at the time of Japan's surrender in August 1945. The invasion and subsequent occupation formed a fundamental challenge to Dutch colonial rule and brought about changes so extensive that the subsequent Indonesian National Revolution became possible. [4]