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Japan's Last Kamikaze Attack of WW2 | The Last Kamikaze Pilot: Admiral Matome Ugaki

On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito gave a speech on the radio in which he announced the unconditional ...
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The Hard Road of the Japanese Documentary Maker

NEW YORK — In “The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On,” a 1987 documentary that takes many abrupt twists and turns, one of the most surprising comes about a half-hour in. The Japanese director Kazuo Hara ...
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Japanese Holdouts after WW2 from 1961 to 1972 | Shoichi Yokoi, Minagawa and Ito

Japanese hold-outs after the second world war are quite the never-ending source of interesting stories. Japanese soldiers were known for their resilience, dedication to the Emperor and often ...
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1,500 Japanese-Americans in Hawaii were evicted during WWII. A new film tells the story

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the United States government ordered the evictions of about 1,500 Americans of Japanese ancestry in Hawaii. The families were told to ...
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As World War II was ending, a Jewish teen became the final American combat death

Just as Emperor Hirohito was announcing Japan’s surrender, two US Army Air Corps P-51 fighters attacked a Tokyo airfield on August 15, 1945 during the last few hours of World War II. Their strafing ...