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unusual facts about Japanese Empire



A Jewish Girl in Shanghai

During the Second World War, approximately 20,000 Jewish refugees fleeing German-occupied Europe were given an area of approximately one square mile in the Hongkou District of Shanghai by the Japanese Empire, designated the Restricted Sector for Stateless Refugees, one of the poorest and most overcrowded areas of the city.

Kayıp Armağan

The Japanese Emperor Meiji wants Torajiro Yamada to bring a gift to the Ottoman Emperor Abdülhamid II.

Operation Archway

At the end of the war in Europe both the 1st and 2nd Special Air Service regiments had returned to the United Kingdom in preparation to be re-deployed to the Far East in the fight against the Japanese Empire.

Pedro Max Fernando Frontin

During his life, he was condecorated with the U.S. Distinction Golden Medal for his services during World War I, Cross of the Leopold II of Belgium; Italy's Golden medal; First Class of Japanese Empire.

Peter Sugiyama

He moved to Koror in 1914 at the invitation of his uncle, after the Japanese Empire seized control of the islands as part of its World War I invasion of German New Guinea (which control would later be formalised by the League of Nations as the South Pacific Mandate).


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Dakota VT-CLA

The first pilot in this new air force was Deputy Commodore Agustinus Adisucipto, who had flown the first Indonesian aircraft, a Yokosuka K5Y (known locally as a Cureng) left by the Japanese empire.

Japan–Latin America relations

On March 27, 1945, the Argentinian government entered World War II on the Allied side and declared war on the Japanese Empire.

Japanese cruiser Tokiwa

As the Pacific War situation deteriorated further for the Japanese Empire, Tokiwa laid thousands of mines in the waters off Okinawa in June 1944 and Yakushima in February 1945.

Naoki Hoshino

Considered successful in his mission to establish a profitable for the Japanese Empire economy in Manchouria, he was recalled to Japan in 1940 where he was selected to serve as chief "Project Department" inside the Finance Ministry to implement the economic reorganization of Japan under the Taisei Yokusankai in the second Konoe Cabinet.

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Nevsky

While living in Japan, N.A. Nevsky traveled around the country, studying the language and customs of the Ainu, Ryukyuans, and the Tsou people of Taiwan (then a part of the Japanese Empire).