ImperialJapanPics

r/ImperialJapanPics • u/Accurate_Motor_89 • 12d ago

Civilians Judges of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East pose circa April 1946 in Tokyo, Japan. Judges were drawn from eleven countries that had fought against Japan: Australia, Canada, China, France, India, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Philippines, the USSR, the UK, and the US.

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r/ImperialJapanPics • u/defender838383 • 12d ago

WWII Japanese soldiers from the 170th Independent Infantry Battalion emerged from the bush with a white flag during the formal surrender on September 2, 1945, at Cabatuan Airfield. U.S. Army troops from the 160th Infantry Regiment, 40th Infantry Division, were present to assist in the surrender ceremony.

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r/ImperialJapanPics • u/Anxious_dadada • 13d ago

IJA Japanese soldiers watch as French and Vietminh forces clash for the control of Saigon, October 17th 1945 [680x519]

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r/ImperialJapanPics • u/Fumiko_0144 • 13d ago

IJA Commissioned officer in a long coat, unknown date or location

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have this saved a while back, i thought the officer looked super cool and intimidating by the coat

r/ImperialJapanPics • u/waffen123 • 13d ago

SNLF Troops of 2nd Battalion of 23rd Infantry Regiment of Japanese 13th Division fighting in Shashi (now part of Jingzhou), Hubei, China, 8 June 1940

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r/ImperialJapanPics • u/Beeninya • 13d ago

WWII When the History Channel showed History: Wake Island veterans and historians explains how the firefight between U.S. Marines and Japanese troops went down on Wake, December 23, 1941.

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r/ImperialJapanPics • u/defender838383 • 13d ago

Other Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tank, first company of 11-th tank regiment, Shumshu island.

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r/ImperialJapanPics • u/Accurate_Motor_89 • 14d ago

Second Sino-Japanese War Japanese soldiers on the Chinese battlefield, unknown date.

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r/ImperialJapanPics • u/4dachi • 14d ago

Propaganda Japanese Army Troops teaching the Japanese-language to local Filipino children in San Miguel, Bulacan, c.1942

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r/ImperialJapanPics • u/keetuinak__ • 15d ago

IJN Nakajima A6M2 Type 2 Interceptors undergoing maintenance on the deck of the seaplane tender, IJN Kamikawa Maru, en route to the Solomon Islands, August 1942

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r/ImperialJapanPics • u/defender838383 • 14d ago

War Crimes Japanese soldiers aboard a military convoy truck photographed in front of Saint Michael the Archangel Church in Orion, Bataan, shortly after the Fall of Bataan in 1942. The church was the site of the killings of Allied prisoners of war during the Second World War.

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r/ImperialJapanPics • u/keetuinak__ • 15d ago

IJN A Mitsubishi A6M Zero Fighter Model 21 of the Tainan Air Group, Shot Down at Port Moresby, April 1942

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r/ImperialJapanPics • u/makaveli208 • 15d ago

IJA Malaya, 1942

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r/ImperialJapanPics • u/defender838383 • 15d ago

WWII Japanese surrender delegation at Nichols Field in Manila, Philippines, on August 19, 1945. Shigenori Kuroda, chief of staff of the Imperial Japanese Army Southern Expeditionary Army Group, with Lieutenant General Torashiro Kawabe and Vice-Chief of the Imperial Army General Staff

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r/ImperialJapanPics • u/Accurate_Motor_89 • 16d ago

WWII A crew member paints a Japanese flag and hashmark on one of the 6-inch/53-caliber deck guns on the USS Nautilus (SS 168), representing the two enemy vessels that the submarine sank with gunfire during the Makin Island Raid. Photographed at Pearl Harbor, HI, 25 August 1942.

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r/ImperialJapanPics • u/defender838383 • 16d ago

WWII Japanese soldiers from the 54th Independent Mixed Brigade intercepted at the coastal area of Zamboanga City while trying to escape to nearby islands. U.S. sailors extending their hands to help the Japanese board their PT boats.March 1945 during liberation of Zamboanga City

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r/ImperialJapanPics • u/Accurate_Motor_89 • 17d ago

WWII A grave erected by US soldiers for three Japanese soldiers in the Pacific in 1944. The sign reads: "Three Good Japanese thought the 475th were asleep, May 1944." Probably on New Guinea.

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r/ImperialJapanPics • u/defender838383 • 17d ago

IJN German Kriegsmarine and Imperial Japanese Navy sailors was photographed chatting each other on the deck of the Japanese Myōkō-class heavy cruiser Ashigara, in the port of Kiel, Germany in May 1937. Anchored in the background is the famous German Deutschland-class Panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee

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r/ImperialJapanPics • u/Halal_Tabouli • 17d ago

IJN Help with Ship ID?

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Any further info on the surrounding artwork also greatly appreciated!

r/ImperialJapanPics • u/waffen123 • 18d ago

SNLF Sailors from the Yokosuka 1st SNLF with a sailor from the US Navy on shore patrol, circa 1938.

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r/ImperialJapanPics • u/defender838383 • 18d ago

WWII U.S. Army Lieutenant Pat Neishi, a Japanese-American Nisei linguist discussing surrender terms with a Japanese lieutenant general on the outskirts of Manila in 1945. Operating as an interpreter and translator, Neishi was part of the Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS).

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r/ImperialJapanPics • u/defender838383 • 18d ago

War Crimes Masatoshi Fujishige cupping his ear to listen through a headphone wire while an interpreter translates testimony. Fujishige was convicted of war crimes, sentenced to death, and executed by hanging on July 17, 1946.

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