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Suicide Cliff is a cliff above Marpi Point Field near the northern tip of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, which achieved historic significance late in World War II.. Also known as Laderan Banadero, it is a location where Japanese civilians and Imperial Japanese Army soldiers took their own lives by jumping to their deaths in July 1944 in order to avoid capture by the United States.
Saipan[2] (/ saɪˈpæn /) is the largest island and capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, a Territory of the United States in the western Pacific Ocean. According to 2020 estimates by the United States Census Bureau, the population of Saipan was 43,385. [3] Its people have been United States citizens since the 1980s.
Banzai Cliff is a historical site at the northern tip of Saipan island in the Northern Mariana Islands, overlooking the Pacific Ocean.Towards the end of the Battle of Saipan in 1944, hundreds of Japanese civilians and soldiers (of the Imperial Japanese Army) jumped off the cliff to their deaths in the ocean and rocks below, to avoid being captured by the Americans.
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 before and during World War II. [2][3][4][5] The term comfort women is a translation of the Japanese ianfu (ja:慰安婦), [6] which literally means "comforting, consoling woman". [7]
Arriola was born in Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands and is Chamorro. [1] [2] She attended the Northern Marianas Academy. [3] She studied at Brown University for a BA in History, then for her MA in Anthropology from the University of Hawaiʻi. [4] She studied for her doctorate at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and ...
Chamorro people. The Chamorro people (/ tʃɑːˈmɔːroʊ, tʃə -/; [5][6] also CHamoru[1]) are the Indigenous people of the Mariana Islands, politically divided between the United States territory of Guam and the encompassing Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Micronesia, a commonwealth of the US.
Former Mayor Elias Parong Sablan (1900–1968) was a chief and mayor in the Northern Marianas Islands. He became second mayor of Saipan in 1945 and served 3 four-year terms until 1957. [98] [99] He was also Judge of Saipan's Community Court, Chairman of Saipan's Board of Education, Chief of Police, and member of Congress (Saipan's). The man ...
Marian Deleon Guerrero Tudela (born c. 1945) is a Northern Mariana Islands politician who served as the mayor of Saipan, the capital of the Commonwealth, from June 2014 until January 2015. She was appointed mayor of Saipan by Governor Eloy Inos to fill the unexpired term of Mayor Donald Flores following his death in office. [1]