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Ki-45 Kai Special Attack of 4th Sentai led by 2nd Lt. Misoaburo Yamamoto YARE
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Choshi Joshi Teishintai with Tachikawa Ki-36 1944 courtesy of the net.
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Actually not the Tachikawa Ki-36 but the Mitsubishi Ki-51 Sonia.
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On December 27, 1941, prior to Japanese invasion into Burma, one of IJA's intelligence teams "Minami Unit" organized the Burmese Voluntary Army with 200 local members recruited. The number increased to 4,860 by February 1942.

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Source: History of Showa-era (一億人の昭和史・日本の戦史 7・太平洋戦争 1)(Oct.1978)
 
It's a very historic place for the Japanese people.

Sakuradamon Incident (1860)

The Sakuradamon Incident was the assassination of Ii Naosuke, Chief Minister (Tairō) of the Tokugawa shogunate, on March 24, 1860 by rōnin samurai of the Mito Domain and Satsuma Domain, outside the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle.

Ii Naosuke, a leading figure of the Bakumatsu period and a proponent of the reopening of Japan after more than 200 years of seclusion, was widely criticized for signing the 1858 Treaty of Amity and Commerce with the United States (negotiated by U.S. Consul to Japan Townsend Harris) and, soon afterwards, similar treaties with other Western countries. The Harris Treaty was signed by the Tokugawa Shogunate in defiance of Emperor Kōmei's instructions not to sign the treaty, thus branding the Shogunate as having betrayed the emperor and by extension, the country. From 1859, the ports of Nagasaki, Hakodate, and Yokohama became open to foreign traders as a consequence of the treaties.

 
Minister's guards were unable to protect him due to their expensive swords.
As it was a snowy day, the guards placed their swords in a cloth case in fear of getting wet.
They had been killed instantly before taking them out. A precious lesson that modern Japanese may forget.

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It's a very historic place for the Japanese people.

Sakuradamon Incident (1860)

The Sakuradamon Incident was the assassination of Ii Naosuke, Chief Minister (Tairō) of the Tokugawa shogunate, on March 24, 1860 by rōnin samurai of the Mito Domain and Satsuma Domain, outside the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle.

Ii Naosuke, a leading figure of the Bakumatsu period and a proponent of the reopening of Japan after more than 200 years of seclusion, was widely criticized for signing the 1858 Treaty of Amity and Commerce with the United States (negotiated by U.S. Consul to Japan Townsend Harris) and, soon afterwards, similar treaties with other Western countries. The Harris Treaty was signed by the Tokugawa Shogunate in defiance of Emperor Kōmei's instructions not to sign the treaty, thus branding the Shogunate as having betrayed the emperor and by extension, the country. From 1859, the ports of Nagasaki, Hakodate, and Yokohama became open to foreign traders as a consequence of the treaties.

Do I correctly understand that these events contributed rationale for dissolving the Shogunate and eventually the beginning of the Meiji period?
 
Sea Hurricane Mk Ibs of No.800 and 880 Squadrons aboard HMS Indomitable at Freetown participating in Operation Pedestal LODE

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Nakajima B5N2 type 97 model 3 'VI-324' IJN Kaga early 1941 Japan BURAO

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