A young Chinese woman from one of the Imperial Japanese Army's "comfort battalions" is interviewed by a British Royal Air Force officer in Rangoon after being liberated in August 1945 [757x800]
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TIL that 3 weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Imperial Navy had submarines off the coast of San Francisco ready for a Christmas Day attack on the Golden Gate Bridge. One single torpedo was fired and was found buried on Marshall Beach next to the bridge in 1946
youtu.be/FEA0dN3aTR0
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Imperial Japanese Army soldiers using Arisaka (bolt-action repeating rifles) to shoot blindfolded Sikhs, those prisoners had been taken after the fall of British Singapore on February 15th, 1942. They were shot in either occupied Burma or Malaya, c. 1943 - 1944. [697 x 434]
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Imperial Japanese atrocities were generally horrific, but Unit 731 is legitimately the stuff of nightmares.
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Faraway from home: A Gatling Gun in service with the Imperial Russian army used at the Pinyen hill, Russo-Japanese war [1280x942]
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The full might of the Imperial Japanese Navy is at your doorstep and will prepare for a launch to seize your tropical island. You are only limited to choosing naval, air, and coastal defenses to protect your island. How will you protect the entire island?
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Imperial Japanese Navy heavy cruiser Haguro during attack on Simpson Harbor, Rabaul, November 2nd 1943.[1450x939]
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Chinese 19th Route Army in defensive position against Imperial Japanese forces in the Battle of Shanghai, 1932.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill crying over the Fall of Singapore in 1942, "If we had only listened to Japan during last fall's negotiations, we wouldn't be in such grief" - Imperial Japanese editorial cartoon (translation in comments)
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In 1942, one pro-Imperial Japan Korean family went to great lengths to force Japanese on their children, scolding a son for informally learning some basic Korean at school, making sure their Korean-speaking grandmother visiting them in Seoul from Kaesong did not influence them too much
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Colonel Prince Yi U, a member of the imperial family of Korea. Forced to serve in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Japanese occupation of Korea. He was killed during the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 7th, 1945. The photo was taken in 1937. [1924 x 2887]
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At least people tried to get the Japanese better living conditions who were in the concentration camps unlike the Imperial Japanese across the pacific
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Was there any form of organized Japanese resistance that opposed Imperial Japan and its policies, especially during WWII?
So I know that a lot of people talk about how Germans like the White Rose and the July 20, 1944 heroically stood up against Hitler and the Nazi Party. But I have never heard of any stories of any Japanese citizenry or military forming an organized resistance to oppose Imperial Japan and its policies.
Was there any form of organized Japanese resistance that opposed Imperial Japan and its policies, especially during WWII?
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So Interesting fact about Padmavati. She actually the only operator that's actively an Axis member. She is part of the Indian National Army which was a collaborationist force of Indian Soldiers that fought alongside the Imperial Japanese for the promise of Indian Independence from the British Empire
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Korean modern dancer Choi Seung-hee μ΅μΉν¬ (1911-1969) performed in Japan, Japan-colonized Korea and Taiwan, USA, Latin America, Europe, and for the Imperial Japanese military during WWII; after WWII, she taught dance in China, USSR, and North Korea, where she reportedly died in a concentration camp
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choβ¦
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Taiwanese commandos who fought the imperial Japanese in the late 1800s
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Hiroo Onoda- the Imperial Japanese soldier who hid in the Philippine jungle for almost 30 years after WWII ended. March 11, 1974. [535x685]
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Museum of Joseon Dynasty at Changgyeonggung Palace. Built in 1911 under Imperial Japanese rule, Demolished in 1991 for restoration of the palace
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Female workers producing swords for the Imperial Japanese Army, Japan, 1944.
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The fridge in my rental house has a sticker to help with the transition from imperial to metric system.
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Imperial Japanese Armt tank drivers train using googles with a narrow slit to simulate tank visors.
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Why Japanese Imperial Flag is recognized offensive unlike the British & French flag?
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CHIRAN, JAPAN - MAY 18: Kamikaze pilots toast cups of sake before departure at the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force Chiran Air Base circa April 1945 in Chiran, Kagoshima, Japan. The air base was the centre of the Japan's suicidal Kamikaze Attacks,
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1943 Imperial Japanese editorial declares liberalism as incapable of maintaining peace and order, and attacks the "analytical spirit of modernity", "extreme analysis", "abuse of the intellect", and "divisive individualism" while praising Fascism and Nazism for building holistic communal societies
The True Meaning of National Identity and the Righteous Peninsula (5)
By Kamata Sawaichiro
The Rise of Internal Cohesionism
Replacing Analytical Spiritualism
The West has brought about an unprecedented revolution in the realm of natural science and technology in human society, shortened distances in space and time throughout the world, and given the world the consciousness that the earth is a unified organism. In this respect, we praise the great achievements of modern Western civilization. The ideas of liberalism and individualism that formed the basis of modern Western civilization dominated society throughout the 19th century and created a history of spectacular progress.
It was the most glorious, most revered, and most progressive era in the history of human civilization to date.
On the other hand, it also contained great invisible weaknesses and shortcomings. In other words, modern civilization has neglected the deep spiritual problems of human existence. It has ignored the fact that there is a kingdom of the spirit outside the realm of natural matter. People thought they were free when they were freed from the laws of God and all the restrictive order of society. This is where the idea of modern freedom, the ferment of individualism, arose.
Thus, liberalism, which emerged as a reaction to medieval civilization, broke through the darkness of that time and made us discover "human beings" in the modern sense, which was thought to be the eternal truth of humanity. When individualism and materialism were taken to the extreme, the point of self-intoxication was reached, and what we now see before us is a state of anarchy in the sphere of life.
The result of subjectivism, rationalism, and positivism is skepticism, materialism, and competition for survival; the result of the Reformation is the loss of tradition and authority, and the anarchy of faith to which the spirit has no return; the result of contract theory and utilitarianism is the tendency toward anarchy in politics; and the result of the economic principle of laissez-faire is economic anarchy, which is the root of modern social unrest.
In short, it then became clear that liberal civilization was incapable of maintaining peace and order in the community of mankind. The mutual interpersonal relationships of trust, and the internal and international relations between ethnic groups had begun to show phenomena full of contradictions as though they were losing their foundations. Then the First G
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Chinese poster in Nanking warning residents that those who collaborate with the Imperial Japanese Army will be executed as traitors. 1938.
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Imperial Japanese Navy's aircraft carrier Amagi capsized after U.S. navy air raid, Kure, Japan, 1946. [3000x1912]
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The Rising Sun Flag is adopted by the Imperial Japanese Army (1870)
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Japanese government panel settled on a pair of proposals to keep the imperial family from shrinking in size, but the body stopped short of giving recommendations on the line of succession.
asia.nikkei.com/Spotlightβ¦
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TIL of the Dutch ship Abraham Crijnssen, whose crew disguised her as a tropical island in order to escape detection by Imperial Japanese forces
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNLβ¦
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What Imperial Japanese propaganda does to a mf
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Stacked side by side were Long barreled (60β inches or more) Chinese Jingal wall guns (captured by Imperial Japanese troops) used by the Chinese insurgents known as the "Boxers" secret society, against an Eight Nation military Alliance, during the Boxer Rebellion in Qing China, c. 1900. [800 x 596]
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The Imperial Japanese Army was notorious for its brutality towards enemy soldiers and civilians alike. Post-WWII, were there societal issues with domestic abuse, violent behaviour, etc against their own people that were linked to these wartime behaviours?
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1943 Editorial from Imperial Japan: the Imperial Way embraces the "freedom" of democracy, the "unity and authority" of Mussolini's Fascism, and the "ethnic totalitarian world view" of Hitler's Nazism, achieving a "complete and active freedom" by obeying the authority of the Japanese God-Man
The True Meaning of National Identity and the Righteous Peninsula
Sawaichiro Kamata
Manifestation of the Great Harmonic Order of the Universe
The Mission of the Japanese People is to Support the Work of Heaven
As I have described previously, under objective circumstances, the Japanese people have come to realize how precious is the land on which they stand. In other words, the struggle against the historical environment that we are currently facing has gradually promoted this awareness.
I have come to realize that by thinking distantly back to the days of the founding of the Imperial State and recalling its majesty and lofty ideals, we as the Japanese people living in this turbulent present world can be inspired with new hope and unyielding courage.
Mussolini's Fascism and Hitler's Nazism share a marked backwardness in the face of our imperial principles and a general sense of "unity" and "integration". Although there are significant commonalities that we share with the two, their fundamental essences are completely different, and I have come to realize that these differences are far more extensive and far greater than previously thought. Indeed, the Nazis have followed Japan's example and made great strides. As Hitler often said, "Japan's national identity and the Japanese spirit" are the object of admiration even among Germans, and Barnes, the author of The Universal Aspects of Fascism, said, "Japan is the ideal country of fascism". The fact that Mussolini envies the purity of the Japanese nation is, I think, a confirmation of this fact.
Whatever they observe, our country is neither a mere ethnic totalitarian state nor a dictatorship. It is an absolute state where the people are united as one, where the moral and biological relationship between parent and child, bound by blood, is deepened and refined, and where the relationship between the Emperor and his subjects is revered to the point of virtue. The Emperor, as the Great Parent, embodies the life of the universe, and wishes to perfect the natural qualities of each of the people, so that they may all attain those qualities. The people of this nation are united in the spirit of a billion trillions, and support the emperor in his empire of heavenly deeds. The heavenly work is to complete our country as a true "family nation," to indoctrinate and guide the people, who are suffering from the afflictions of the weak and the strong, to help them build a "world family" internally, and to manifest the
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TIL a group of Imperial Japanese Navy cadets planned to start a war with the United States in 1932 by murdering Charlie Chaplin, who was in the country at the time.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayβ¦
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Imperial Japanese Army vs Zombie Horde
Let's say one infantry division and 100 zombies for every solider. Fight takes place in China; the Japanese have the same piss poor logistics they had in that theater. The Japanese are defending a mid sized city. They don't know for sure that a headshot is needed; their intelligence is based largely on rumors.
They have as much air support as they would assign to one division. Zombies have world war z book rules.
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Korean residents of Seoul once spoke their own unique dialect of Japanese called "KeijΕ-kotoba", which included phrases like doshitanne ('what's the matter?') and 쑰건chΕdai ('give me the conditions'), and Imperial Japanese authorities tried to eradicate it in schools
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Donuimun Gate at Seoil, South Korea. Originally built for Seoul Fortress Wall in 1398, Demolished in 1915 by Imperial Japanese Government
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1943 Imperial Japanese editorial decries liberalism, individualistic humanism, rationalism, international universalism, and Marxist materialism of the West for corrupting Japan, and calls for a "high-minded Japanese worldview" and reliance on "irrational and mysterious powers" of the Japanese spirit
The True Meaning of National Identity and the Righteous Peninsula (3)
By Kamata Sawaichiro
Now is the Time to Deny the Past
Toward the Establishment of a High-minded Japanese Worldview
Looking back at the past, since the opening of Japan to the outside world in the Meiji era, Japan has gradually developed the characteristics of early modern liberalism, following the mainstream of thought since the commercial revolution in Western Europe. However, the liberalism of the early modern period in the West was the mechanization of human life, the promise of unlimited material development, and the construction of a luxurious capitalist civilization on top of that.
Thus, the enlightened individualistic humanism that originated in the Renaissance, flourished in the Reformation, and bore fruit in the independence of the United States, the political reforms in France, and the social revolution in Russia, was the natural destination of the modern spirit that denied God. Static, stagnant societies were replaced by noisy, dynamic, progressive societies. Communal societies were replaced by profit-driven societies. Natural societies were replaced by societies of rights and contracts. Societies of faith were replaced by societies of science. The Kingdom of God was buried, and the Kingdom of Knowledge was established.
People have forgotten the demands of the higher soul or divine value, and have come to place the greatest value only on material value and its increase by various technical means. This has become even more blatant in the Marxist view of materialist history, which was developed due to the impasse of liberalism. Japan in particular, which had lagged behind in the development of capitalist civilization in the early modern period due to the isolationist policy of Tokugawa feudal society, was tasked with the challenge of catching up with the standards of Europe and America in every aspect. It had to concentrate on westernizing the lives of its subjects, even to the point of enduring the humiliations of the Meiji Rokumeikan Era.
During the Meiji era, our predecessors fought with their blood to boldly deny the past. They felt attracted to the rationalism and international universalism of early modern Europe, based on Bacon's assertion that "knowledge is power," and strove for the globalization of Japan. We must not deny that fact.
It was only because of this that Japan was able to liberate itself from its insular lifestyle and emerge as one of the leading
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US Marines open fire on Japanese Imperial Marines fleeing from cover, visible in the background. This footage, from the film "With the Marines at Tarawa," is one of the rare examples of American and enemy troops appearing in the same camera frame.
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Imperial Japan waged an aggressive Japanese language campaign on Korean villages in the '30s and '40s, entering homes to attach Japanese labels on household objects, putting residents under 55 in mandatory classes, applying an "unyielding whip" to "break down their customs and stray dreams"
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Was there any form of organized Japanese resistance that opposed Imperial Japan and its policies, especially during WWII?
So I know that a lot of people talk about how Germans like the White Rose and the July 20, 1944 heroically stood up against Hitler and the Nazi Party. But I have never heard of any stories of any Japanese citizenry or military forming an organized resistance to oppose Imperial Japan and its policies.
Was there any form of organized Japanese resistance that opposed Imperial Japan and its policies, especially during WWII?
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