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When Japanese soldiers first realized World War II was lost

In 1942 on Guadalcanal, Japanese soldiers entered the jungle convinced that courage, discipline, and night attacks would once again bring victory. What they encountered instead was an enemy that did ...
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Japanese soldier missing since WW2 found in 2006 + last Japanese soldier to surrender 29 years after WW2 ended | Hiroo Onoda's 1974 surrender

The aftermath of the Second World War was incredibly chaotic and missing Japanese soldiers that turned up years later weren’t that rare initially. One of the most curious cases must have been that of ...

Long-overlooked Japanese American WWII soldier honored with posthumous commission

Hawaiʻi-born Japanese American WWII soldier Daniel Betsui was initially denied a commission and labeled an enemy alien.
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Japanese American WWII soldiers honored

HONOLULU -- Seven Japanese American soldiers were promoted to officer ranks in a solemn ceremony Monday, eight decades after they died fighting for the U.S. during World War II despite having been ...
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San Francisco exhibit highlights service of Japanese American soldiers in WWII

In the days and months following the attack on Pearl Harbor, drawing the U.S. into World War II, thousands of people of Japanese descent in the U.S. were forced from their homes and into incarceration ...

Watercolorist Honoring Japanese American Unit from WWII

Tony Moy put together the new book, The 4forty2nd, which chronicles the remarkable journey of The 100th/442nd Regimental ...
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Held captive in their own country during World War II, Japanese Americans used nature to cope with their unjustified imprisonment

With a stroke of a presidential pen, the lives of Izumi Taniguchi, Minoru Tajii, Homei Iseyama and Peggy Yorita irreparably changed on Feb. 19, 1942. On that day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...