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American soldiers praying with Japanese soldiers garrisoned on Aka Island, Okinawa, during an informal truce on June 27, 1945. A rare moment of humanity that spared the island’s residents from the devastation inflicted across much of Okinawa just 15 miles to the west.
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American soldiers praying with Japanese soldiers garrisoned on Aka Island, Okinawa, during an informal truce on June 27, 1945. A rare moment of humanity that spared the island’s residents from the devastation inflicted across much of Okinawa just 15 miles to the west.

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 8 hours ago
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Portrait of Suzuki Keiji, an intelligence officer who helped form the Burma Independence Army and was an advocate for Burmese independence. Responsible for the massacre of ethnic Karen villagers in a reprisal attack for the death of a Japanese officer, inflaming ethnic tensions for decades to come.

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 1 day ago
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Native New Guinean members of the 1st New Guinea Infantry Battalion, attached to the Australian 7th Infantry Brigade, escort a Japanese prisoner captured from a hut. Bougainville area, Solomon Islands, 23 March 1945.

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 2 days ago
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Joseon general Yi Sun-sin and Ming general Deng Zilong fighting Japanese ships side by side during the battle of Noryang in 1598, a collaborative work by Dong Tianye (董天野) and Huang Zixi (黄子曦).

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 4 days ago
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Chinese and Japanese troops passing through the same battle site during the Battle of Shanghai in 1937. The 1st photo shows Chinese soldiers wearing German-style helmets, while the second shows Japanese troops moving through the same area.

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 4 days ago
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The head of Etō Shinpei, a ringleader of the failed Saga Rebellion against the Meiji Government, is displayed in public following his execution alongside twelve other rebel leaders in April, 1874.

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 5 days ago
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A British officer releases his hold on a Japanese war criminal as he falls to his death on the gallows in Changi Gaol, Singapore, 1946.

u/Accurate_Motor_89 — 6 days ago