A U.S. Marine patrol crosses the Matanikau River on Guadalcanal in September 1942
The Actions along the Matanikau were the two most prominent engagements across the
Matanikau River in
Guadalcanal during
World War II. In the first of these separate but related actions (23–27 September 1942), elements of three
U.S. Marinebattalions attacked
Japanese troop concentrations around the river. The attack was intended to destroy any Japanese forces in the area and to disrupt their attempts to use
Point Cruz peninsula, the village of Kokumbona, and a series of ridges and ravines stretching inland from the coast to stage attacks on the Marine's defenses at
Lunga Point. The Japanese repulsed this attack. In the second action (6–9 October), a larger force of Marines crossed the river and inflicted heavy casualties on an infantry regiment. This forced the Japanese to retreat from their positions east of the Matanikau and hindered their preparations for a planned major offensive on the U.S. Lunga defenses set for later in October. (Full article...)
The Japanese government-issued dollar was a form of currency issued between 1942 and 1945 for use within the territories of Singapore, Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei, under occupation by
Imperial Japan during World War II. The currency, informally referred to as "banana money", was released solely in the form of banknotes, as metals were considered essential to the war effort. The languages used on the notes were reduced to English and Japanese. Each note bears a different obverse and reverse design, but all have a similar layout, and were marked with stamped block letters that begin with "M" for "Malaya". This 1942 fifty-cent Japanese-issued banknote, depicting a
traveller's palm on the obverse, is part of the
National Numismatic Collection at the
Smithsonian Institution.
Other denominations: '"`UNIQ--templatestyles-0000000D-QINU`"'
Before the outbreak of World War I, German naval ships were located in the Pacific; Tsingtao developed into a major seaport while the surrounding
Kiautschou Bay area was
leased to Germany since 1898. During the war, Japanese and British
Allied troops
besieged the port in 1914 before capturing it from the German and Austro-Hungarian
Central Powers, occupying the city and the surrounding region. It served as a base for the exploitation of the natural resources of
Shandong province and northern China, and a "New City District" was established to furnish the Japanese colonists with commercial sections and living quarters. Tsingtao eventually reverted to Chinese rule by 1922.
Asahi Breweries is a Japanese global beer, spirits, soft drinks and food business group. This photograph, taken during the
blue hour with a full moon, shows the headquarters of Asahi Breweries in
Sumida, Tokyo, as viewed from the wharf on the
Sumida River near Azuma Bridge. The
Asahi Beer Hall, topped by the Asahi Flame, designed by
Philippe Starck, is visible on the right, with the
Tokyo Skytree in the background on the left.
The siege of Osaka was a series of battles undertaken by the Japanese
Tokugawa shogunate against the
Toyotomi clan, and ending in the clan's dissolution. Divided into two stages (the winter campaign and the summer campaign), and lasting from 1614 to 1615, the siege put an end to the last major armed opposition to the shogunate's establishment. This eight-metre-long (26 ft) painting, titled The Summer Battle of Osaka Castle and executed on a
Japanese folding screen, illustrates
Osaka Castle under siege, and was commissioned by the daimyoKuroda Nagamasa, who took a team of painters with him to the battlefield to record the event. The painting depicts 5071 people and 21 generals, and is held in the collection of Osaka Castle.
Banknotes:
Empire of Japan. Reproduction: National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution
The Japanese-issued Netherlands Indies gulden was the currency issued by the
Japanese Empire when it occupied the
Dutch East Indies during World War II. Following the Dutch capitulation in March 1942, the Japanese closed all banks, seized assets and currency, and assumed control of the economy in the territory. They began issuing
military banknotes, as had previously been done in other occupied territories. These were printed in Japan, but retained the name of the pre-war currency and replaced the Dutch gulden at par. From 1943 the military banknotes were replaced by identical bank-issued notes printed within the territory, and the currency was renamed the roepiah from 1944. The currency was replaced by the
Indonesian rupiah in 1946, one year after the Japanese surrender and the country's independence.
This note, denominated one gulden, is part of the 1942 series.
A registration card for
Louis Wijnhamer (1904–1975), an ethnic Dutch humanitarian who was captured soon after the Empire of Japan occupied the Dutch East Indies in March 1942. Prior to the occupation, many ethnic Europeans had refused to leave, expecting the Japanese occupation government to keep a Dutch administration in place. When Japanese troops took control of government infrastructure and services such as ports and postal services, 100,000 European (and some Chinese) civilians were interned in prisoner-of-war camps where the death rates were between 13 and 30 per cent. Wijnhamer was interned in a series of camps throughout Southeast Asia and, after the
surrender of Japan, returned to what was now Indonesia, where he lived until his death.
Prunus serrulata (Japanese Cherry) is a species of
cherry native to
Japan,
Korea and
China. Its
flowers are produced in clusters of two to five together at nodes on short spurs in spring. They are white to pink, with five petals in the wild type tree.
The
keep of
Nagoya Castle located in
Nagoya,
Aichi Prefecture. Originally built around 1525, the castle was used as the District army headquarters and as a POW camp during
World War II. During the bombing of Japan, the castle was burnt down in a
USAF air raid on May 14, 1945. It was reconstructed in 1959 and is currently under exhibition.
Japanese Prime MinisterFumio Kishida formally apologizes to 130 victims of forced
sterilization under the Eugenics Protection Law which was declared unconstitutional on July 3, and approves compensation measures for more than 25,000 affected victims and their relatives.
(NHK)
Seventy-six more deaths and at least 500 hospitalizations in
Japan are linked to use of
red yeast rice supplements distributed by Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, causing
kidney disease and other severe conditions.
(Asahi TV)
Fukuzawa was an early advocate for reform in
Japan. His ideas about the organization of government and the structure of social institutions made a lasting impression on a rapidly changing Japan during the
Meiji period. He appears on the 10,000-
Japanese yen banknote from 1984 to 2024. (Full article...)
Kōchi Prefecture is a
prefecture of
Japan located on the south
coast of
Shikoku. The capital is the city of
Kōchi. Prior to the
Meiji Restoration, Kōchi was known as
Tosa Province. The prefecture comprises the southwestern part of the island of Shikoku, facing the
Pacific Ocean. It is the largest but least populous of Shikoku's four prefectures. Most of the province is mountainous, and in only a few areas such as around
Kōchi and
Nakamura is there a coastal plain. Kōchi is famous for its many rivers.
Inamura-yama in Tosa-cho is the highest peak in Kochi prefecture with an
altitude of 1506 meters
above sea level. Eleven cities are located in Kōchi Prefecture.
...that the story of Sada Abe, a woman who cut off her dead lover's
genitals and carried them around with her for days, is one of
Japan's most notorious
scandals?
Image 47Japanese experts inspect the scene of the alleged railway sabotage on South Manchurian Railway that led to the
Mukden Incident and the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. (from History of Japan)
Image 48A social hierarchy chart based on old academic theories. Such hierarchical diagrams were removed from Japanese textbooks after various studies in the 1990s revealed that peasants, craftsmen, and merchants were in fact equal and merely social categories. Successive shoguns held the highest or near-highest
court ranks, higher than most court nobles. (from History of Japan)
Image 67Hōryū-ji is widely known to be the oldest wooden architecture existing in the world. (from Culture of Japan)
Image 68Minamoto no Yoritomo was the founder of the Kamakura shogunate in 1192. This was the first
military government in which the shogun with the
samurai were the de facto rulers of Japan. (from History of Japan)
Image 70Kinkaku-ji was built in 1397 by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. (from History of Japan)
Image 71Mount Aso 4 pyroclastic flow and the spread of Aso 4 tephra (90,000 to 85,000 years ago). The pyroclastic flow reached almost the whole area of Kyushu, and volcanic ash was deposited of 15 cm in a wide area from Kyushu to southern Hokkaido. (from Geography of Japan)
Image 76Samurai could
kill a commoner for the slightest insult and were widely feared by the Japanese population. Edo period, 1798 (from History of Japan)
Image 85The Kuril Islands, with their Russian names. The borders of the Treaty of Shimoda (1855) and the Treaty of St. Petersburg (1875) are shown in red. Currently, all islands northeast of Hokkaido are administered by Russia. (from Geography of Japan)
Image 88Relief map of the land and the seabed of Japan. It shows the surface and underwater terrain of the Japanese archipelago. (from Geography of Japan)
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A U.S. Marine patrol crosses the Matanikau River on Guadalcanal in September 1942
The Actions along the Matanikau were the two most prominent engagements across the
Matanikau River in
Guadalcanal during
World War II. In the first of these separate but related actions (23–27 September 1942), elements of three
U.S. Marinebattalions attacked
Japanese troop concentrations around the river. The attack was intended to destroy any Japanese forces in the area and to disrupt their attempts to use
Point Cruz peninsula, the village of Kokumbona, and a series of ridges and ravines stretching inland from the coast to stage attacks on the Marine's defenses at
Lunga Point. The Japanese repulsed this attack. In the second action (6–9 October), a larger force of Marines crossed the river and inflicted heavy casualties on an infantry regiment. This forced the Japanese to retreat from their positions east of the Matanikau and hindered their preparations for a planned major offensive on the U.S. Lunga defenses set for later in October. (Full article...)
The Japanese government-issued dollar was a form of currency issued between 1942 and 1945 for use within the territories of Singapore, Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei, under occupation by
Imperial Japan during World War II. The currency, informally referred to as "banana money", was released solely in the form of banknotes, as metals were considered essential to the war effort. The languages used on the notes were reduced to English and Japanese. Each note bears a different obverse and reverse design, but all have a similar layout, and were marked with stamped block letters that begin with "M" for "Malaya". This 1942 fifty-cent Japanese-issued banknote, depicting a
traveller's palm on the obverse, is part of the
National Numismatic Collection at the
Smithsonian Institution.
Other denominations: '"`UNIQ--templatestyles-0000000D-QINU`"'
Before the outbreak of World War I, German naval ships were located in the Pacific; Tsingtao developed into a major seaport while the surrounding
Kiautschou Bay area was
leased to Germany since 1898. During the war, Japanese and British
Allied troops
besieged the port in 1914 before capturing it from the German and Austro-Hungarian
Central Powers, occupying the city and the surrounding region. It served as a base for the exploitation of the natural resources of
Shandong province and northern China, and a "New City District" was established to furnish the Japanese colonists with commercial sections and living quarters. Tsingtao eventually reverted to Chinese rule by 1922.
Asahi Breweries is a Japanese global beer, spirits, soft drinks and food business group. This photograph, taken during the
blue hour with a full moon, shows the headquarters of Asahi Breweries in
Sumida, Tokyo, as viewed from the wharf on the
Sumida River near Azuma Bridge. The
Asahi Beer Hall, topped by the Asahi Flame, designed by
Philippe Starck, is visible on the right, with the
Tokyo Skytree in the background on the left.
The siege of Osaka was a series of battles undertaken by the Japanese
Tokugawa shogunate against the
Toyotomi clan, and ending in the clan's dissolution. Divided into two stages (the winter campaign and the summer campaign), and lasting from 1614 to 1615, the siege put an end to the last major armed opposition to the shogunate's establishment. This eight-metre-long (26 ft) painting, titled The Summer Battle of Osaka Castle and executed on a
Japanese folding screen, illustrates
Osaka Castle under siege, and was commissioned by the daimyoKuroda Nagamasa, who took a team of painters with him to the battlefield to record the event. The painting depicts 5071 people and 21 generals, and is held in the collection of Osaka Castle.
Banknotes:
Empire of Japan. Reproduction: National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution
The Japanese-issued Netherlands Indies gulden was the currency issued by the
Japanese Empire when it occupied the
Dutch East Indies during World War II. Following the Dutch capitulation in March 1942, the Japanese closed all banks, seized assets and currency, and assumed control of the economy in the territory. They began issuing
military banknotes, as had previously been done in other occupied territories. These were printed in Japan, but retained the name of the pre-war currency and replaced the Dutch gulden at par. From 1943 the military banknotes were replaced by identical bank-issued notes printed within the territory, and the currency was renamed the roepiah from 1944. The currency was replaced by the
Indonesian rupiah in 1946, one year after the Japanese surrender and the country's independence.
This note, denominated one gulden, is part of the 1942 series.
A registration card for
Louis Wijnhamer (1904–1975), an ethnic Dutch humanitarian who was captured soon after the Empire of Japan occupied the Dutch East Indies in March 1942. Prior to the occupation, many ethnic Europeans had refused to leave, expecting the Japanese occupation government to keep a Dutch administration in place. When Japanese troops took control of government infrastructure and services such as ports and postal services, 100,000 European (and some Chinese) civilians were interned in prisoner-of-war camps where the death rates were between 13 and 30 per cent. Wijnhamer was interned in a series of camps throughout Southeast Asia and, after the
surrender of Japan, returned to what was now Indonesia, where he lived until his death.
Prunus serrulata (Japanese Cherry) is a species of
cherry native to
Japan,
Korea and
China. Its
flowers are produced in clusters of two to five together at nodes on short spurs in spring. They are white to pink, with five petals in the wild type tree.
The
keep of
Nagoya Castle located in
Nagoya,
Aichi Prefecture. Originally built around 1525, the castle was used as the District army headquarters and as a POW camp during
World War II. During the bombing of Japan, the castle was burnt down in a
USAF air raid on May 14, 1945. It was reconstructed in 1959 and is currently under exhibition.
Japanese Prime MinisterFumio Kishida formally apologizes to 130 victims of forced
sterilization under the Eugenics Protection Law which was declared unconstitutional on July 3, and approves compensation measures for more than 25,000 affected victims and their relatives.
(NHK)
Seventy-six more deaths and at least 500 hospitalizations in
Japan are linked to use of
red yeast rice supplements distributed by Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, causing
kidney disease and other severe conditions.
(Asahi TV)
Fukuzawa was an early advocate for reform in
Japan. His ideas about the organization of government and the structure of social institutions made a lasting impression on a rapidly changing Japan during the
Meiji period. He appears on the 10,000-
Japanese yen banknote from 1984 to 2024. (Full article...)
Kōchi Prefecture is a
prefecture of
Japan located on the south
coast of
Shikoku. The capital is the city of
Kōchi. Prior to the
Meiji Restoration, Kōchi was known as
Tosa Province. The prefecture comprises the southwestern part of the island of Shikoku, facing the
Pacific Ocean. It is the largest but least populous of Shikoku's four prefectures. Most of the province is mountainous, and in only a few areas such as around
Kōchi and
Nakamura is there a coastal plain. Kōchi is famous for its many rivers.
Inamura-yama in Tosa-cho is the highest peak in Kochi prefecture with an
altitude of 1506 meters
above sea level. Eleven cities are located in Kōchi Prefecture.
...that the story of Sada Abe, a woman who cut off her dead lover's
genitals and carried them around with her for days, is one of
Japan's most notorious
scandals?
Image 47Japanese experts inspect the scene of the alleged railway sabotage on South Manchurian Railway that led to the
Mukden Incident and the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. (from History of Japan)
Image 48A social hierarchy chart based on old academic theories. Such hierarchical diagrams were removed from Japanese textbooks after various studies in the 1990s revealed that peasants, craftsmen, and merchants were in fact equal and merely social categories. Successive shoguns held the highest or near-highest
court ranks, higher than most court nobles. (from History of Japan)
Image 67Hōryū-ji is widely known to be the oldest wooden architecture existing in the world. (from Culture of Japan)
Image 68Minamoto no Yoritomo was the founder of the Kamakura shogunate in 1192. This was the first
military government in which the shogun with the
samurai were the de facto rulers of Japan. (from History of Japan)
Image 70Kinkaku-ji was built in 1397 by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. (from History of Japan)
Image 71Mount Aso 4 pyroclastic flow and the spread of Aso 4 tephra (90,000 to 85,000 years ago). The pyroclastic flow reached almost the whole area of Kyushu, and volcanic ash was deposited of 15 cm in a wide area from Kyushu to southern Hokkaido. (from Geography of Japan)
Image 76Samurai could
kill a commoner for the slightest insult and were widely feared by the Japanese population. Edo period, 1798 (from History of Japan)
Image 85The Kuril Islands, with their Russian names. The borders of the Treaty of Shimoda (1855) and the Treaty of St. Petersburg (1875) are shown in red. Currently, all islands northeast of Hokkaido are administered by Russia. (from Geography of Japan)
Image 88Relief map of the land and the seabed of Japan. It shows the surface and underwater terrain of the Japanese archipelago. (from Geography of Japan)
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