Japanese occupation currency in Hong Kong Riter,Oct 11, 2024 Replies: 3 Views: 861 CAC Oct 14, 2024 75th Infantry Div's Bill George Prater's account Riter,Aug 20, 2024 Replies: 0 Views: 1,078 Riter Aug 20, 2024 Chipped Beef on Toast (or Sh*t on a Shingle) ...
The Americans told the Filipinos, Burmese, Malayans, and others that the Japanese occupation currency was worthless and urged them not to trade with the enemy or accept their money. Our Enemy is only the Americans Another Japanese leaflet to the Filipino soldiers and civilians had almost the sam...
Harry Truman, in his 1945 announcement of the bomb, focused on vengeance, and on the new power to destroy at a button push –“We are now prepared to obliterate more rapidly and completely every productive enterprise the Japanese have above ground in any city,” said Truman. The plan put ...
“stand on the right side of history and join hands to achieve China’s complete reunification,” invoking the way the people who would form the Communist and Nationalist parties worked together against a common enemies — the Manchus, then warlordism and feudalism, then the Japanese, and ...
Further British compromise became inevitable when the Japanese in the spring of 1942 swept through Burma to the eastern borders of India while also organizing inSingaporea large Indian National Army and issuing appeals to Asiannationalism. During the war, Churchill reluctantly offered increasing installme...
In general, the Japanese hired the Papuans to work for them; teaching them to drive trucks, perform rudimentary maintenance on vehicles and equipment, etc. and paying wages in the occupation currency. Better treatment than they received from their pre-war Australian administrators. From the Papuans...
occupation zones American economic aid, which had been instituted elsewhere in westernEuropea year earlier under theMarshall Plan. Toenhancethe effectiveness of that aid, the Americans, British, and French effected a currency reform in their zones that replaced Germany’s badly inflated currency (the...
The world outside the Beltway seems well aware the outcome of more than 20 years of war and occupation is to return the country to its pre-September 11 state of medieval feudalism even if we chose not to talk much about it here at home. That’s not much to run on for the second ...
The latter, on Okinawa in 1995, when three US service members gang raped a 12 year old, remains an impediment to changes in the US-Japan SOFA even today, over fifteen years later, and even though the men were ultimately convicted in a local court and served sentences in a Japanese ...