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Historical Photos of the Empire of Japan from 1868-1947.
Photos of the Empire of Japan from 1868-1947.
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Captain Sakae Oba, commander of the last Japanese detachment on Saipan known as "Fox of Saipan".Under Ōba's leadership, the group survived for over a year after the battle and finally surrendered in December 1945, three months after the war had ended.
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2024/12/02
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Maori guard and a Japanese prisoner in a New Zealand POW camp
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2024/12/02
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Spinning silk thread [1880s]. Stilfried-Ratenitz, von R. (?), Farsari A. (?)
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2024/12/01
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Girl cutting daikon [1870-1880]. Unknown author
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2024/12/01
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Shirley Temple among the Japanese navy pilots. 1938
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2024/12/01
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The Empress visits the Fujisawa Orphanage in Tokyo, April 13, 1946
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2024/12/01
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Japanese Ambassador to Rome Shigeru Yoshida (third from left) greets Kurimura and Kumakawa at Rome-Littorio airfield on the conclusion of the pair’s remarkable flight on August 31, 1931. Third from right is Chan Shiniru, deputy head of Hosei University’s Aviation Research Group.
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2024/12/01
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Fusao Ohara, known as Harry O'Hara, served in the British Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and Royal Air Force (RAF). Ohara was born in Tokyo in 1891 but is recorded as running away from home in 1910. At the outbreak of war in 1914 he enlisted in the 34th Sikh Pioneers of the Indian Army
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2024/11/30
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A Japanese officer and soldiers rest during a break in fighting in Beijing.1937
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2024/11/30
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Ryotaro Kumakawa (left) and Moritaka Kurimura stand beside Ishikawajima R-3 J-BEPB, named Seinen Nippon (Young Japan) at the aircraft manufacturer's factory at Tachikawa airfield in Tokyo in April 1931, shortly before undertaking their epic 92-day flight to Rome
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2024/11/30
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Described by the international press as “The Lindbergh of Japan”, Seiji Yoshihara stands beside his Armstrong-Siddeley Genet-engined Junkers Junior in which he flew within a week from Berlin to Tokyo via Koenigsberg, Smolensk, Sverdlovsk, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk, Chita, Harbin and Osaka in 1930.
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2024/11/29
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Japanese soldiers read newspapers during a break in fighting in Nanjing.09.12.1937
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2024/11/29
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Two "Geishas" about to make a flight in a Junkers F.13 operated by Japan Air Transport Institution at Ohama, Sakai, near Osaka.
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2024/11/28
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A registration point for residents of a Japanese city who lost their homes during the American bombings.1945
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2024/11/28
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One of the types demonstrated to the Japanese delegation at Rechlin in June 1944 was the turbojet-powered Arado Ar 234B, two prototypes of which were put into service as highspeed reconnaissance machines that July.
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2024/11/28
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Yamato, the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleship ever constructed, undertaking sea trials in the Bungo Channel, 20 October 1941. She would be sunk on 7 April 1945 with nearly all of her crew, during a pointless suicide mission.[3430x1756]
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2024/11/28
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Japanese soldiers guard a section of the railway near the village of Zhangxindian in the Beiping region (the name of Beijing until 1928 and since 1945). The photo was published in the Japanese publication "Asahigraph".
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2024/11/27
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IJA pilot Tadeo Adachi marks his 4th aerial victory on his Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien Army Type 3 Fighter. Adachi survived the war and eventually moved to the United States.
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2024/11/26
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Prince Nashimoto Morimasa inspecting acoustic aircraft locators at Osaka at the end of November 1932
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2024/11/26
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Carrier Hosho running full power trials, Tateyama Bay, Japan, 30 Nov 1922
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2024/11/26
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Japanese paratroopers of Kaoru Airborne Raiding Detachment inside a L2D aircraft, 26 Nov 1944; person in aisle with glasses was identified as Lieutenant Takashi Kaku
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2024/11/26
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Japanese Army soldiers tow a disabled Chinese Vickers Armstrong 6-ton tank from the battlefield to their territory. The operation is led by an officer standing on the front armor plate. Twenty single-turret F-model vehicles were purchased by China from Poland in 1934-1936.
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2024/11/26
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Japanese machine gunners with 6.5mm Type 3 machine guns during the Battle of Shanghai.1937
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2024/11/25
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Japanese small arms (mostly Arisaka Type 99 rifles) in an American landing craft.September 1945
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2024/11/25
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The last surviving Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate while it was in flying condition at The Air Museum in California in the 1960s
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2024/11/25
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Japanese troop transports in the port of Singapore.1942
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2024/11/24
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Nobuo Fujita, Japanese naval aviator who flew a floatplane from submarine I-25 and conducted the Lookout Air Raids in southern Oregon on 9 September 1942, making him the only Axis pilot during World War II to aerial bomb the contiguous United States.
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2024/11/24
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Captain 3rd Rank Denisov interrogates captured Japanese officers. Kataoka Naval Base, Shumshu Island.22.08.1945
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2024/11/23
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Soldiers and officers of the Japanese army rejoice in the port of captured Singapore. February 1942
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2024/11/23
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