Japan’s invasion of Alaska and the only World War II land campaign on American soil

The campaign began on June 3 and 4, 1942, when Japanese aircraft launched air attacks against the U.S. naval base at Dutch ...
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Pentagon project seeks to ID American POWs killed in Tokyo prison fire of 1945

Nearly 80 years after a devastating fire tore through a Japanese military prison during World War II, a Defense Department agency is working to identify American prisoners of war who died in the blaze ...
American Rifleman

Japanese Last-Ditch Small Arms Of World War II

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** Japanese women were expected to be ...
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WW2 From the Japanese Perspective | Animated History

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The fighter that made Japan’s sky defenseless in World War II

In the final months of World War II, American fighters appeared over Japan itself, shattering the belief that distance could protect the home islands. This film follows the P-51 Mustang and the pilots ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Batch of Undelivered WWII Letters Intended for Japanese Soldiers Ended Up in an Oregon Museum Decades Later. Now, Experts Are Returning the Lost Correspondence to Their Families

People line up for rations of beans and water in Japan following the country's defeat in World War II, in September 1945. Pictures from History / Universal Images Group via Getty Images On October 10, ...
Time

How Japan’s Outgoing Leader Could Break From Tradition in Talking About World War II

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba bows to the crowd after giving a speech during the 80th anniversary ceremony of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on ...
Yahoo

Chinese film on 'evil' WW2 germ warfare unit risks adding fuel to Japanese tensions

BEIJING (Reuters) - "Evil Unbound", which depicts Japanese germ warfare during World War Two, set a first-day box office record among the war films released in China this year, as Beijing seeks to ...