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  1. Nov 16, 2023 · There were several factors in why food was rationed during World War II, including supply and demand issues, military needs, and the economy. While demand had been building in the years prior, when the US joined the war, demand for materials and supplies skyrocketed. Among these were the metals needed for tin cans.

  2. Sep 25, 2014 · Find out where Japan’s first superheroes came from and which manga and anime started with from this original, unassuming art form called kamishibai. The beginnings of written storytelling in Japan started with scrolls, called emakimono. These picture scrolls were read from right to left. The two most famous scrolls are the “Tale of Genji ...

  3. Mar 16, 2017 · An Oxford historian is arguing that the history books have got it wrong: World War II started in 1937 in Asia and not in 1939 in Europe. In fact, more US-centric accounts use 1941 as the start of ...

  4. Oct 6, 2019 · IKAJA. The International Kamishibai Association of Japan (IKAJA) Terakoya, 3-32-15-1F, Inokashira, Mitaka-shi, Tokyo 181-0001 Japan. kamishibai@ybb.ne.jp. (IKAJA) in Japanese. (World Kamishibai Day) Welcome to The International Kamishibai Association of Japan (IKAJA). Kamishibai is a part of Japan's unique cultural heritage that is moving ...

  5. The end of World War II can be traced back to two events in 1945: the unconditional surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945, and the dropping of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, respectively. The unconditional surrender of Germany marked the end of the war in Europe, while the bombing of Japan led to ...

  6. Mar 12, 2018 · Like a barrel of gunpowder, the smallest spark could make everything explode. The spark that set off World War I came on June 28, 1914, when a young Serbian patriot shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Austria), in the city of Sarajevo. The assassin was a supporter of the Kingdom of Serbia, and ...

  7. Aug 30, 2019 · One such kamishibai is based on the famous rakugo (humorous oral storytelling) tale, “The Case of the Bound Jizo.”Ooka Echizen, an Edo-period samurai judge, who notoriously came up with clever solutions to difficult cases has a stone statue of Jizo tied up and brought into custody in order to create a sensation and uncover the true culprit.