Photos Taken in Japan | World War II Database

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Prime Minister Tojo and his cabinet ministers outside the Prime Minister's Office upon completing the first cabinet meeting, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, 18 Oct 1941	Battleship Yamato underway in the Bungo Channel between the Inland Sea and Philippine Sea, 20 Oct 1941

Battleship Yamato underway in Sukumo Bay, Japan, 30 Oct 1941	Group portrait of carrier Shokaku's fighter squadron, Japan, Oct or Nov 1941; A6M Zero fighter in background

Sailors of carrier Zuikaku winching up the anchor on the quarter-deck after leaving Hitokappu Bay, Etorofu, Hokkaido Prefecture Japan (now controlled by Russia as Itrup of Sakhalin Oblast) in the Kurile Islands, 26 Nov 1941; she was en route to attack Pearl Harbor	Carrier Soryu in Hitokappu Bay, Etorofu, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan (now Kasatka Bay, Iturup, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia), early Dec 1941

Hyuga at anchor, Japan, 4 Dec 1941	Emperor Showa, Empress Kojun, and their children, Japan, 7 Dec 1941

Japanese light carrier Shoho shortly after her conversion from a submarine tender, Yokosuka, Japan, 25 Dec 1941	Hideki Tojo (front row, center), Nobuyuki Abe (front row, right), and other members of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, Japan, 1942

Japanese Special Naval Landing Force troops, Japan, circa 1940s	Ki-20 heavy bomber at rest at the airfield in Hamamatsu, Japan, 1940s

Ki-21 bomber at rest at the airfield in Hamamatsu Airfield, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan, 1940s	Ki-36 aircraft on a training flight with the Japanese Army Aviation Academy, Japan, circa 1930s

Ki-46 aircraft of the Japanese Army flight school at Shimoshizu, Chiba, Japan, 1940s	Ki-55 aircraft of Kumagai flight school in flight over Japan, circa 1940s

Me 210 aircraft purchased by the Japanese Army for testing, Japan, circa 1939-1943	Member of the National Diet of Japan Nobuyuki Abe, Japan, 1942

Personnel of Japanese Army 26th Tank Regiment in training, Japan, 1940s	Combined Fleet Headquarters staff on board battleship Yamato, Kure, Japan, 10 Feb 1942; note Chief of Staff Vice Admiral Matome Ugaki and Commander-in-Chief Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto at center