In 2014, Images from this article were used to produce posters for a re-enactment of the Japanese occupation of Singapore, and the Filipino website FilipiKnow used images from this article in a story entitled “9 Fascinating Facts You didn't Know About Christmas in the Philippines.” Author ...
By the start of World War Two the Japanese army had been blooding its army in China for nearly a decade and fought various engagements against the Soviets. All of this experience was used against the allies and between 1941 to 1942 IJA enjoyed victory after victory and this reached it pinnac...
“The Russian-Jewish Woman Who Voluntarily Interred Herself in a WW2 Japanese Internment Camp” For the full “History Unplugged” podcast, clickhere! Japanese POW camps were encircled with barbed wire or high wooden fencing and those who attempted escape would be executed in front of other priso...
Following the performance of “A Thousand Cranes,” a multimedia play on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, I will take part virtually on apanelwith Dr. Meredith Oda, Miya Hannan, and Cary Yamamoto to discuss the Japanese American experience of WW2 here in the Western states. Program funded by...
He was captured in Singapore. From the RA Roll we can see he was transported OVL (Overland) to the Thai/Burma Railway on 24 Jun 42. This puts him in the First Mainland Party. The back of his Japanese Index Card shows: At some stage he must have returned to Singapore as he was then...
The Japanese invasion of Malaya and Singapore during the World War II, from the time of the first landings in Northern Malaya on 8 December 1941, was swift and brutal. Within eight weeks the Japanese had taken Malaya and landed on the island of Singapore which had become intensely overcrowded...
[Map] Maps depicting British dispositions in Malaya and Singapore on 7 Dec 1941 and the Japanese advance from Dec 1941 to Jan 1942 | World War II Database
The Germans and the Japanese started WW2, and purely to enslave and conquer the world. The Axis power did horrendous things to civilians, from death camps to using them for medical experiments. Another point was to help ensure complete cessation by R...
A lesson from WW2 and other wars in history is how some have justified their actions. I see the axis powers of WW2 as the bad guys so when I hear hints of the same excuses popping up here and there, I can’t help but worry a little. BTW, I’d also say “never let your c...
The deadliest earthquake in human history is at the heart of the deadliest day in human history. OnJanuary 23, 1556, more people died than on any day by a wide margin. Why did so many Japanese died in ww2? Some historical estimates of the number of deaths which resulted from Japanese wa...