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The Sanzu-no-Kawa (三途の川, "Sanzu River", literally the "Three-World River" in reference to Buddhist ideas about realms of existence) is a mythological river in Japanese Buddhist tradition similar to the Chinese concept of Huang Quan (Yellow Springs), Indian concept of the Vaitarani and Greek concept of the Styx. [1]
The crossing of the Yalu River by Marshal Baron of Kuroki's troops. The picture also shows the construction of a bridge over barges by the Japanese on the Korean side near the island of Housan for the passage of the 2nd Army Division (Angelo Agostini, O Malho, 1904).
Slim noted in his memoirs that this action was "the longest opposed river crossing attempted in any theatre of the Second World War." [20] [26] Unknown to the Allies, Pagan was the boundary between the Japanese Fifteenth and Twenty-Eighth Armies. This delayed the Japanese reaction to the crossing.
River of Three Crossings) in literary, visual, and religious depictions of the Buddhist underworld. Although Buddhist hell is imagined in a great number of texts and images ranging from places such as China, India, and Tibet, Datsueba appears to be unique to Japanese iterations of Buddhist hell. [ 1 ]
Besides the Army engineer units for river-crossing, the Japanese Army had their own shipping force to transport troops at sea which sometimes acted in concert with Japanese Navy vessels to transport their forces. It was a large force which employed 300,000 soldiers (Army Shipping Units) at maximum and managed 30% of Japanese transport ships.
The Japanese had been defeated in the Battles of Kohima and Imphal and the offensive to destroy Japanese forces north of the Irrawaddy River was planned with a surprise crossing of the river. The 7th Indian Infantry Division and other formations were to seize a bridgehead on Irrawaddy at Pakokku by 15 February 1945 and move southeast with ...
Japanese Span Length Type Carries Crosses Opened Location Prefecture Ref. 1: Akashi Kaikyō Bridge: 明石海峡大橋: 1,991 m (6,532 ft) 3,911 m (12,831 ft) Suspension 2 levels steel truss deck, steel pylons 960+1991+960
The Tsukuda Bridge, dating from 1964, [11] was the first bridge built after World War II, crossing the river from Tsukiji to Tsukishima. The Kachidoki Bridge was constructed in 1940 for the commemoration of the victory of the Japanese army at Lushun during the Russo-Japanese War. This bridge is the only drawbridge on the Sumida and has not been ...