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Japan participated in World War II from 1939 to 1945 as a member of the Axis and encapsulates a significant period in the history of the Empire of Japan, marked by significant military campaigns and geopolitical maneuvers across the Asia-Pacific region.
7 gru 2015 · Media in category "Historic Japanese World War II photographs". The following 41 files are in this category, out of 41 total. Demobilized Japanese soldiers crowd trains at Hiroshima on way to homes. - NARA - 520935.jpg 2,700 × 2,700; 1.79 MB.
10 lis 2015 · O n the morning of March 21, 2015, a plane carrying Japanese and American World War II veterans landed on the island of Iwo Jima, 650 miles off the coast of mainland Japan. It was 70...
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8 gru 2014 · The sheer expansion of Japanese territory was immense. Six months after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Empire stretched from Manchuria in the north to New Guinea's jungle-clad Owen Stanley Range in the south. In the west, the empire began at the borders of India's Assam and continued to the Gilbert Islands in the South Pacific.
Nearly 6,000,000 men from the home islands and the empire served in the Japanese military, and 2,120,000 died. Allied bombing reduced Japan’s major and provincial cities to ash and is reported to have destroyed a quarter of all Japanese dwellings.
This map shows the territories occupied by Japan as of June 4, 1942 - the pinnacle of Japanese expansion during World War II.
