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The Mukden Incident (September 18, 1931), also called Manchurian Incident, occurred in northern Manchuria when a section of railroad, owned by Japan's South Manchuria Railway, near Mukden (盛京) (today's Shenyang) was blown up. Japan's military accused Chinese dissidents of the act, thus providing an ...

During the Chosun-Japanese war from 1592 to 1598, Japanese forces committed cannibalism, which can be confirmed in the records written after the war. In this war, the biggest in Korean history, almost one third of Chosun people(5 million people) were killed in battles, massacre and famine. At the en...

During World War I, the future marshal of the Soviet Union Mikhail Tukhachevsky was taken prisoner by the Germans and held in Ingolstadt prison camp and there he met Charles de Gaulle. Being war prisoners in Germany, both were young officers. They shared a progressive idea on war strategy. What rela...

Correct!!!!! I've waited for a long time to get a right answer. It's your turn, Chris! 占守島(しゅむしゅとう)は、千島列島の北東端を占める島。面積は230㎢で千島海峡に面している。1945年まで日本領であったが、同年8月15日の日本降伏に伴いソ連軍が日ソ中立条約を一方的に無視して突如侵攻し、これを占領した。後に日本はサンフランシスコ講和条約で同島の領有権を放棄したが、同条約の調印国ではないにもかかわらずその後もソ連が支配を続け、ソ連消滅後は引き続きロシア支配下にある。日本ではロシアからの返還を望む声が多数あ...

Диана Vasilli Mikhailovich Golovnin(Василий Михайлович Головнин), captain of the Russian naval vessel Diana, was captured and imprisoned by the Japanese while surveying the Kuril Islands(he is released in 1813). His account of his experiences, published in 1816, was translated into English in 1818 a...

The Soviet attack on the South Sakhalin(樺太) started on August 11, 1945. The 56th Sniper Corps consisting of the 79th Sniper Division, the 2nd Sniper Brigade, the 5th Sniper Brigade and the 214 Armored Brigade attacked the Japanese 88th Division. Although the Red Army greatly outnumbered the Japanese...

In the Kuril Islands, the battle between the Soviet Union and Japan started after the surrender of Japan. On the night of August 17, 1945, the Red Army started its operation on the Kuril Islands. On one of these islands, the last battle of WW2 was fought. When the Red Army landed on that island with...

津田三蔵（つださんぞう) He was a Japanese policeman. The incident occurred on May 11, 1891. The Tsar was on route to Kyoto with the then Greek prince Georgius and a Japanese prince after sightseeing Lake Biwa in Shiga prefacture. When he got to the village of Ohzu(大津), the guy attacked him with a sword. The fo...

After watching the docu, I searched a lot of related data on the internet. I got surprised to know Japan's nuclear developing project has been a controversial and much debated issue that has produced a lot of articles and books. The docu is exaggerated and focuses only on the statement of the Japane...

I'm a Korean living in Seoul, Korea. Now I'm watching a documentary program on Japan's nuclear developing program in ww2. http://www.imbc.com/broad/tv/culture/cantell/index.html According to the docu, Japan began to develop an atomic bomb after their defeat at Midway. Japanese nuclear-related techno...

:) Hey~! I'm now studying on a controversial guy, Alexandr Marinesko who sank Wilhelm Gustloff in January, 1945, killing 10 thousand Germans at one time. What do you think of this guy who was refused to be given the Hero of the Soviet Union and had to go to a Gulag in Kolima river? Is he a cursed he...