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Comfort women were women and girls who were forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army in occupied territories before and during World War II. The name “comfort women” is a translation of the Japanese ianfu a euphemism for “prostitute(s)”,who generally lived under conditions of sexual slavery. Estimates of the number of women involved typically
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Operation PX was the codename for the Japanese plan for a biological terror attack on the U.S. west coast in World War 2. The planned operation was abandoned due to the strong opposition of Chief of General Staff Yoshijirō Umezu, as well as the Japan surrender following the atomic bombings and the Soviet declaration of
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Today marks the 80th anniversary of Japan’s biggest mistake in WWII, the attack on Pearl Harbor Allegedly Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto said “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” after the attack and he was proven to be right. Inevitably the US would have
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Bushido was really a code of chivalry to have respect for your enemy. During WWII the Japanese Army turned it to something more sinister.They turned it more into a code of death and destruction. Fortunately there were still some soldiers who decided to honor the real Bushido code. Mario Tonelli was just one of 72,000
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Masanobu Tsuji (11 October 1901 – ca.1961) was a Japanese army officer and politician. During World War II, he was an important tactical planner in the Imperial Japanese Army; he developed the detailed plans for the successful Japanese invasion of Malaya at the start of the war. He also helped plan and lead the final Japanese
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Hate is mankind’s worst disease and it seems to be incurable. I am only limiting this to the 1933-1945 era but I could easily have dozens of pages of pictures of all era’s going up to today. Nazis singing to encourage a boycott of Jewish shops , 1933 A German woman facing public humiliation because
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+++++++++++CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES++++++++++++++ Surgeon General Shirō Ishii ( June 25, 1892 – October 9, 1959) was a Japanese army medical officer, microbiologist and the director of Unit 731, a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army involved in forced and frequently lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War and WWII. UNIT 731-Japanese WWII Experiments Torture techniques conjured up
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Serial killers are not just a western phenomenon. There are and there have been serial killer all over the globe. However the story of Seisaku Nakamura is an even more disturbing one, the reason being is that he killed his first victims when he was aged 14. Seisaku Nakamura (1924 – 1943) is also known as Hamamatsu
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There were several events that happened on September 18 during World War II. Between 1939 and 1945, six extraordinary events occurred on the same date, 18 September. I am not sure if it is a coincidence or intentional. Or maybe I just happened to spot it; either way, it is a bit eerie, and most
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The SS Tjisalak was a 5,787-ton Dutch freighter with passenger accommodation built in 1917 for the Java-China-Japan Line and used by the Allies during World War II to transport supplies across the Indian Ocean between Australia and Ceylon. On 26 March 1944, she was torpedoed and sunk by the Japanese submarine I-8 while traveling un-escorted.
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