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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jlblonde, post: 1530219, member: 32000&quot;]<b>Japan WWII</b></p><p><br /></p><p>In December 1941, Japan attacked the Allied powers at Pearl Harbour and several other points throughout the Pacific. Japan was able to expand her control over a large territory that expanded to the border of India in the West and New Guinea in the South within the following six months.</p><p>The turning point in the <b>Pacific War</b> was the battle of Midway in June 1942. From then on, the Allied forces slowly won back the territories occupied by Japan. In 1944, intensive air raids started over Japan. In spring 1945, US forces invaded Okinawa in one of the war&#039;s bloodiest battles.</p><p>On July 27, 1945, the Allied powers requested Japan in the Potsdam Declaration to surrender unconditionally, or destruction would continue. However, the military did not consider surrendering under such terms, partially even after US military forces dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, and the Soviet Union entered the war against Japan on August 8.</p><p>On August 14, however, Emperor Showa finally decided to surrender unconditionally.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]201642.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Japan - 5 Sen - 1946 - Y #65</p><p>[ATTACH]201643.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]201644.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Japan - 10 Sen - 1944 - Y #64</p><p>[ATTACH]201645.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]201646.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>[TABLE=&quot;width: 100%&quot;]</p><p>[TR]</p><p>[TD]<font face="arial"><font size="2"></font></font></p><p><font face="arial"><font size="2"></font></font>[/TD]</p><p>[TD=&quot;align: right&quot;][/TD]</p><p>[/TR]</p><p>[/TABLE][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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