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How Japan’s Kamikaze Attacks Went From Last Resort at Pearl Harbor to WWII Strategy

Not until nearly three years after the bombing of Pearl Harbor did Japan adopt suicide aerial attacks as official military strategy.

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USS Indianapolis: Survivor Accounts From the Worst Sea Disaster in US Naval History

‘There were a lot of sharks,’ says one of the survivors. ‘So many.’

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Japanese troops occupying Korea in the early 1900s. (Credit: Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images)

How Japan Took Control of Korea

Between 1910 and 1945, Japan worked to wipe out Korean culture, language and history.

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Chen Jinyu, then 80 years old in this 2005 photograph, was raped everyday at 16 years old while living as a comfort woman for the Japanese military.

The Brutal History of Japan’s ‘Comfort Women’

Between 1932 and 1945, Japan forced women from Korea, China and other occupied countries to become military sex slaves.

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