Japanese occupation

Febuary 8th 1942, 2300H; the Japanese begun an artillery bombardment of Singapore that started the invasion. On 15 Febuary, 1942; the British surrendered to the Japanese. This marked the start of …

[Photo] Manila, Philippines during Japanese occupation, 9 May 1942 | World War II Database

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Loyalist soldiers in a trench, one is looking through a periscope, during the Spanish Civil War

[Photo] Front page of the Tribune newspaper of Manila, Philippines with headline of the fall of Bataan, 24 Apr 1942 | World War II Database

Japanese Occupation

Japanese Govenor of Malaya inspecting troop parade at Lang Palace 1942

With one-sixth the population of China, did Japan really think it could conquer 450 million people and control over 4 million square miles?

Shortly after his arrival in Japan, General Douglas MacArthur, who led the American occupation forces and ordered Operation Blacklist to deal with either the surrender or the collapse of the Japanese government in late 1945,

Between 1910 and 1945, Japan worked to wipe out Korean culture, language and history.

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Japanese internment camps drawing

The Sleuk Rith Institute, designed by the late Zaha Hadid, will offer a different view of memory and justice.

Carrying bundles on the head is picked up by Filipinos at an early age. Residents and fiesta guests who are celebrating the liberation by 11th Airborne and the 1st Cavalry Divisions of the U.S. Army, and the feast day of Santa Martha, patron saint, watch from windows of temporary housing built after former dwellings were burned by retreating Japanese. Pateros (Southeast Metro Manila), Philippines National Archives and Records Administration of the USA

Philippines suffering hand of japanese