Aso said Japan and the US would have to defend Taiwan if the island was "invaded", alleging that "an invasion" of Taiwan by the Chinese mainland could be seen as an existential threat, allowing Japan to exercise the ri...
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The Japanese invasion of China in 1937 followed Japan's signing of the "anti-Comintern pact" with Nazi Germany the previous year and was part of a chain of developments culminating in the Japanese attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. After years of ...
invasion The latestfind of seven dotaku bells from Awajishima Island pushes back date for the practice of burying bronze bells earlier by a century Dotaku found on Awajishima Island (The Yomiuri Shimbun, May 20, 2015) Source:The Yomiuri Shimbun Seven dota bronze bells from the mid-Yayoi...
You know the Japanese invasion invasion of China amounted to more than eight years, and the invasion of China Taiwan, including the Diaoyu Islands, the Japanese killed many Chinese people buried alive in the number of Chinese people, tens of millions of people, the Japanese use the Chinese do...
It occupied Korea, Formosa (Taiwan), and southern Sakhalin Island. In 1931-32 Japan occupied Manchuria, and in 1937 it launched a full-scale invasion of China. Japan attacked US forces in 1941 - triggering America's entry into World War II - and soon occupied much of East and Southeast ...
The United States, also not so subtly, has implied that it would protect Taiwan against a Chinese invasion, and that allies including Japan would be expected to help. Japan has already committed to a bigger military role in the Pacific, in partnership with the U.S. It has increased its de...
Japan warned on Friday that China risked escalating tension with Taiwan with an increase in military exercises that appeared aimed in part at readying Beijing's forces for a possible invasion of the democratically governed island. Japan's annual assessment of security threats, including those posed ...
CANBERRA/SYDNEY--Chinese military drills in the straits of Taiwan in 2023 practiced maneuvers key to an invasion of the island, although an actual attack was not imminent or inevitable, a senior U.S. general in the region said on Thursday. ...
After the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, Japan agreed to an unconditional surrender on August 15. The war cost Japan and the rest of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere millions of lives and left much of the nation's industry ...