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  2. Hirohito, Emperor of Japan: supreme Commander in Chief of Armed Imperial Forces, head of state, and representative of the "Imperial Sun Lineage", State Shinto and Worship national god image, and chief of the Imperial Household Ministry.

  3. Hiroo Onoda - Wikipedia

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    Onoda was born on 19 March 1922, in Kamekawa, Wakayama, in the Empire of Japan.In 1939, he left to work at a branch of the Tajima Yoko trading company in Wuhan, China, [1] [2] and in 1942 was conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army. [1]

  4. Special Naval Landing Forces - Wikipedia

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    After a year of occupation, with reinforcements from thousands of Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) soldiers, they completely evacuated on July 28, 1943 two weeks before Allied forces landed. In a well-known last stand in 1943, approximately 1,700 men of the 7th Sasebo SNLF and 2,000 base personnel (mostly the 3rd Special Base Force) at the Battle ...

  5. Occupation of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The so-called military government in Japan was therefore neither military nor government. The Japanese government's de facto authority was strictly limited at first, however, and senior figures in the government such as the Prime Minister effectively served at the pleasure of the occupation authorities before the first post-war elections were ...

  6. United States Forces Japan - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Marines with JGSDF soldiers at Camp Kinser United States forces assisted Japan via Operation Tomodachi following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.. After the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II in Asia, the United States Armed Forces assumed administrative authority in Japan.

  7. Japanese holdout - Wikipedia

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    Lieutenant Ei Yamaguchi and his 33 soldiers emerged on Peleliu in late March 1947, attacking the U.S. Marine Corps detachment stationed on the island believing the war was still being fought. Reinforcements were sent in, along with a Japanese admiral who was able to convince them that the war was over.

  8. Japanese marine paratroopers of World War II - Wikipedia

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    Japanese marine paratroopers were the airborne forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II.The paratroopers served under the Kaigun Tokubetsu Rikusentai or Special Naval Landing Forces (SNLF), the professional marines of the IJN; The SNLF itself was one of several land-based units fielded by the IJN during the interwar-and WWII-period.

  9. Yoshitsugu Saitō - Wikipedia

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    Yoshitsugu Saitō (斎藤 義次, Saitō Yoshitsugu, 2 November 1890 – 10 July 1944) was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. He commanded Japanese forces during the Battle of Saipan and killed himself during the battle.