Over 2,600,000 civilians and militants died in Japan alone during World War II. One survivor named Louie Zamperini experienced unimaginable horrors, and faced death daily in a POW camp in Japan. He survived by refusing to let his captors deprive him of his humanity and make him “invisible...
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Romania, and Japan were some of the countries that got their hands on fighter aircraft. Hungary, with its close ties to Germany, also wanted this fighter in its inventory, though it was not to be. Unfortunately for them, despite their efforts, only a ...
to the United States, and to a lesser extent also relative to France and Japan, a relative decline that was interrupted by the second world war (WW2); (iii) the remarkable catching-up to the United States by France and Japan after WW2, interrupted in the case of Japan during the 1990s...
Only one did not survive WW2; battleship Prince of Wales was lost to Japanese air attack during the Battle off Kuantan off Malaya during the opening days of the Pacific War. The surviving ships were all scrapped in 1957.Source: Wikipedia....
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Japan, even though a defeated power by the summer of 1945, exploited long-standing Vietnamese resentment of French colonialism. The first signs of the beginning of the end of the French empire in Indochina came when Vietnamese insurgents attacked and killed French residents in Saigon, prompting...
Japan is strengthening and expanding its military in response to rising threats from China and North Korea. On 18 September 2013, Australia elected Tony Abbott prime minister. Abbott is a right-winger with links to the ultra-conservative Opus Dei sect of the Catholic Church. His first budget ...
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