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  2. Battle of Iwo Jima - Wikipedia

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    Battle of Iwo Jima. Part of the Volcano and Ryukyu Islands campaign of the Pacific Theater (World War II) Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, taken on Mount Suribachi. Date. 19 February – 26 March 1945. (5 weeks) Location. Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands, Japan. 24°47′N 141°19′E  /  24.78°N 141.32°E  / 24.78; 141.32.

  3. Battle of Changsha (1939) - Wikipedia

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    50,000 killed, wounded and missing [5] The First Battle of Changsha (17 September 1939 – 6 October 1939; Chinese: 第一次長沙會戰) was the first of four attempts by Japan to take the city of Changsha, Hunan, during the second Sino-Japanese War. Coming two weeks after Germany 's invasion of Poland on September 1, it was the first major ...

  4. Surrender of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, ending the war. By the end of July 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was incapable of conducting major operations and an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent.

  5. Bloody Saturday (photograph) - Wikipedia

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    Bloody Saturday, by H. S. Wong. Bloody Saturday (Chinese: 血腥的星期六; pinyin: Xuèxīng de Xīngqíliù) is a black-and-white photograph taken on 28 August 1937, a few minutes after a Japanese air attack struck civilians during the Battle of Shanghai in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Depicting a Chinese baby crying within the bombed-out ...

  6. Russo-Japanese War - Wikipedia

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    The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire. [ 4 ] The major theatres of military operations were in the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden in Southern Manchuria, the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan.

  7. Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima - Wikipedia

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    Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (Japanese: 硫黄島の星条旗, Hepburn: Iōtō no Seijōki) is an iconic photograph of six United States Marines raising the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the final stages of the Pacific War. Taken by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press on February 23, 1945, the photograph was ...

  8. Grave of the Fireflies - Wikipedia

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    Grave of the Fireflies. Grave of the Fireflies (Japanese: 火垂るの墓, Hepburn: Hotaru no Haka) is a 1988 Japanese animated war drama film written and directed by Isao Takahata, and produced by Studio Ghibli. It is based on the 1967 semi-autobiographical short story of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka.

  9. Flag of Japan - Wikipedia

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    Flag of Japan. The national flag of Japan is a rectangular white banner with a crimson-red circle at its center. The flag is officially called the Nisshōki (日章旗, 'flag of the sun') but is more commonly known in Japan as the Hinomaru (日の丸, 'Ball of the sun'). It embodies the country's sobriquet: the Land of the Rising Sun.