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These are films set during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1942-1945) in World War II, including those based on fact and fiction.
The Japanese occupation of the Philippines (Filipino: Pananakop ng mga Hapones sa Pilipinas; Japanese: 日本のフィリピン占領, romanized: Nihon no Firipin Senryō) occurred between 1942 and 1945, when the Japanese Empire occupied the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II.
The total amount of land under Japanese sovereignty reached 8,510,000 km 2 (3,300,000 sq mi) in 1942. [2] By 1943, it accounted for more than 20% of the world's population at the time with 463 million people in its occupied regions and territories.
The Battle of Hong Kong Honkon kōryaku: Eikoku kuzururu no hi (香港攻略 英国崩るゝの日) (Chinese: 香港攻略), also known as The Day England Fell, is the sole film made in Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation from 1941 to 1945. [2] The 1942 film was produced by the Japanese Dai Nippon Film Company, was directed by Shigeo ...
By 1942, the Japanese Empire had launched offensives in Dutch East Indies, New Guinea, Singapore, Burma, Yunnan and India, the Solomons, Timor, Aleutian Islands, Christmas Island and the Andaman Islands. By the time World War II was in full swing, Japan had the most interest in using biological warfare. Japan's Air Force dropped massive amounts ...
Ano hata o ute korehidōru no saigo (Japanese Language: あの旗を撃て コレヒドールの最後) (Filipino: Liwayway ng Kalayaan) also known as Dawn of Freedom, [3] and Shoot That Flag: The End of Corregidor [4] is a 1944 Japanese-Filipino drama war film directed by Yutaka Abe and Gerardo de León.
This is a list of regions occupied or annexed by the Empire of Japan until 1945, the year of the end of World War II in Asia, after the surrender of Japan. Control over all territories except most of the Japanese mainland ( Hokkaido , Honshu , Kyushu , Shikoku , and some 6,000 small surrounding islands) was renounced by Japan in the ...
By 09:00 they were in control of both the airfield and the railroad. The following day, the Japanese naval covering force withdrew to Palau. [1] The Philippine 51st Division sent an engineering battalion south into the Bicol Peninsula to destroy bridges and to prevent railroad equipment from falling into the hands of the Japanese.