Japan
epub |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:Gavan McCormack & Satoko Oka Norimatsu [McCormack, Gavan & Norimatsu, Satoko Oka]

2010 (April): A “final proposal” to the US government, in the form of “broad acceptance” of the Guam Treaty terms, which, however, were significantly altered to a Futenma Replacement Facility ...
( Category: Asian June 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Mansfield

The soaring trusses and support pillars of Tokyo Skytree. Photo frames are popular with tourists. The curving sky corridor creates a sense of stepping out above the city. On a ...
( Category: Tourist Destinations & Museums June 3,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alexander Bennett

“It is natural for Samurai to learn the ways of war, and apply themselves to the acquisition of basic fighting skills. However, as is clearly stated in ancient military texts, ...
( Category: Martial Arts May 30,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Raja Adal

FIGURES 5.3–5.6 Sample from a set of some twenty-five educational drawing cards from the 1910s or early 1920s by the Egyptian artists Yūsuf Kāmil and Rāghib ʿAyyād. The cards are ...
( Category: Japan May 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-26 | Author:Clayton K. S. Chun,John White

Late in the war, B-29s and other aircraft could attack Japanese targets almost without opposition. This B-29 flying over Mount Fuji symbolizes the air superiority of the Allies over Japan. ...
( Category: Japan April 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-04-18 | Author:Sei Shonagon

The woman he gazes at in secret is bending forward, so that her hair falls away from her head and hangs perhaps six inches before her face. It glows there ...
( Category: Asia April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sheila A. Smith [Sheila A. Smith]

The U.S.-Japan Strategic Bargain The limitations on Japan’s use of its own military created a strategic dependency on the United States.² As Sakamoto Kazuya argued in his seminal work on ...
( Category: History & Theory April 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-14 | Author:F. H. King

Fig. 122.—A Shantung plow, simple but effective. Through my interpreter we learned that there were twelve in this man’s family, which he maintained on fifteen mow of land, or 2.5 ...
( Category: Organic April 15,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Mark Stille

During the battle of the Coral Sea, the Japanese inflicted heavy losses on the Pacific Fleet with the carrier Lexington, shown here exploding, being sunk and a second carrier, Yorktown, ...
( Category: World War II April 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-10 | Author:Takeo Yoshikawa

27 A Special Submarine In the previous chapter, I wrote about the “thunderous explosion” I heard at approximately eight o’clock in the evening. This loud noise, I would later learn, ...
( Category: World War II April 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-23 | Author:David Dean Barrett

9 A SHIFT OF POWER, THE FIRST IMPERIAL INTERVENTION August 9, 1945 3 Days After Hiroshima The Soviet Union was now officially at war with Japan, and the culmination of ...
( Category: Japan April 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Ronnie Day [Неизв.]

THE HELENA RESCUE MISSION TO VELLA LAVELLA We left the nearly 200 survivors in the area around Helena’s bow around midday 6 July. The wounded had been placed in the ...
( Category: Japan April 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-15 | Author:Robert O'Neill

ORIGINS OF THE CAMPAIGN By 1944 the glorious Japanese victories across the Far East during 1941 and 1942 and the subsequent humiliation of the Allies were now just dim memories. ...
( Category: Military History Pictorials April 4,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-04-15 | Author:Mike Yeo

This was the scene at Kanoya airfield just prior to the departure of Lt Cdr Goro Nonaka’s 15 G4M2e “Betty” motherships and their Ohka manned aerial bombs (and three pathfinder ...
( Category: Japan April 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 1999-05-24 | Author:Maria Rosa Henson

Comfort Woman Every day this was the scene in my room. swollen that I was in pain for three days. Even the hot water compress I made could not relieve ...
( Category: Women in History March 28,2020 )