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3 days ago · The capture of Iwo Jima cleared the aerial approach to the Home Islands and paved the way to Okinawa, where soldiers and Marines would invade on April 1, 1945. Dinah Might, the first B-29 bomber to make an emergency landing at Motoyama Airfield No. 1 on Iwo Jima is surrounded by Marines and Seabees, March 4, 1945.
5 days ago · December 5, 1943, was a Sunday, but my grandfather, with some pending work to complete, was all set to leave for his office in Calcutta’s Dalhousie Square (today, Kolkata’s BBD Bagh). Just ...
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1 day ago · Japan portal. v. t. e. The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to the Paleolithic, around 38–39,000 years ago. [1] The Jōmon period, named after its cord-marked pottery, was followed by the Yayoi period in the first millennium BC when new inventions were introduced from Asia.
1 day ago · Little did he know that he would create one of the most polarizing words in history. Nazi stems from a Bavarian word meaning "simple-minded." Heiden first used the word as a term of mockery.
3 days ago · From Japan's point of view, the intention was to gain as much time as possible to prepare the defence of the Japanese mainland by putting up a determined fight on Iwo Jima. At the same time, there were several airports, from which, for example, Japanese planes took off during the Mariana Islands campaign.
4 days ago · In this sense, pan-Asianism retained a relevance for de-imperialized Japan as much as it did for pre-war Japan. Koschmann’s article may have done the most to shake up our convictions that pan-Asian thought has little relevance left in the post-war period.
3 days ago · Ninjutsu and the Image of the Ninja Becomes Popularized and Goes Global. Last week, I argued that ninja did not exist during the time when the Samurai wars took place. Instead, I claimed, that image arose during the twentieth century, and that it arose from an attempt to take some claims of magical beings called ninja and find a more rational ...
