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The Consulate General of Japan at Chicago (在シカゴ日本国総領事館 Zai Shikago Nippon-koku Sōryōjikan) is in the Olympia Centre in the Near North Side of Chicago. [14] There was a Japanese Mutual Aid Society. In the pre-World War II era there was a YMCA mission that served Japanese students. During the 1930s the mission closed.
Comfort women. Korean comfort women being questioned by the United States Army after the Siege of Myitkyina, August 14, 1944 [ 1 ] Native name. Japanese: 慰安婦, ianfu. Date. 1932–1945. Location. Asia. Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories ...
During World War II, approximately 350,000 U.S. women served with the armed forces. As many as 543 died in war-related incidents, including 16 nurses who were killed from enemy fire - even though U.S. political and military leaders had decided not to use women in combat because they feared public opinion. [ 2 ]
Women took on many different roles during World War II, including as combatants and workers on the home front. “More than six million women took wartime jobs in factories, three million volunteered with the Red Cross, and over 200,000 served in the military.”. [ 1 ] The war involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale; the absolute ...
Japanese Americans served in all the branches of the United States Armed Forces, including the United States Merchant Marine. [ 1 ] An estimated 33,000 Japanese Americans served in the U.S. military during World War II, of which 20,000 joined the Army. Approximately 800 were killed in action. The 100th Battalion and the 442nd Infantry Regiment ...
The War Relocation Authority operated ten Japanese-American internment camps in remote areas of the United States during World War II. The War Relocation Authority (WRA) was a United States government agency established to handle the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. It also operated the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee ...
Asian American women during World War II served many crucial functions that tend to be overlooked, or erased entirely, from modern history books. [citation needed] Women’s roles are under-appreciated or unmentioned in the context of war; these women, however, were tasked with various duties that greatly aided American forces going into combat.
Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino (Japanese: 戸栗郁子 アイバ; July 4, 1916 – September 26, 2006) was an American disc jockey and radio personality who participated in English-language radio broadcasts transmitted by Radio Tokyo to Allied troops in the South Pacific during World War II on the Zero Hour radio show. Toguri called herself " Orphan ...