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Battleship Nagato, Kure, Japan, Aug 1942	Exchange ship Tatsuta Maru showing her non-combatant markings as photographed through the periscope of the submarine USS Kingfish, Kii Channel, Japan, 14 Oct 1942.

Osami Nagano, Hideki Tojo, Wang Jingwei, and others celebrating the one-year anniversary of the start of the Pacific War, Tokyo, Japan, Dec 1942	A Japanese soldier guarding the Russo-Japanese border on Sakhalin Island at the 50th parallel, Karafuto Prefecture, Japan, circa mid 1940s

Chuichi Nagumo with his family, Japan, 1943	DC-5 transport originally with Dutch airlines KLM but captured by the Japanese is shown in Japan for testing, Tachikawa Air Field, circa 1943

Hideki Tojo and Wang Jingwei, Japan, circa 1940s	Ki-21 bomber in flight over Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, circa 1940s

Ki-21 bombers in flight over Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, circa 1940s	Ki-54 aircraft at the Sendai Army Flight School, Natori, Miyagi, Japan, 1940s

Prototype J2M3 Raiden 21 fighter aircraft at rest, Yokosuka, Japan, circa 1940s	US Marine Captain J. R. Hester (back row, 4th from left) and other American prisoners of war, Hokkaido, Japan, circa 1943

Japanese Mogami-class cruiser Suzuya on her trials in Toyama Bay, Japan, 8 Feb 1943.	Light cruiser Oyodo at Kure Naval Arsenal, Japan, circa 28 Feb 1943; note the 45m large catapult at stern which was later removed during conversion

Female munitions factory workers, Kokura, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, Apr 1943	Nachi, Heian Maru, and Teiyo Maru at Paramushiru, Kurile Islands, May 1943

Prime Minister Hideki Tojo bowing at the funeral portrait of Isoroku Yamamoto, Tokyo, Japan, May 1943	The ashes of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto arriving at Kisarazu, Japan aboard battleship Musashi, 23 May 1943

The state funeral of Isoroku Yamamoto, Tokyo, Japan, 5 Jun 1943, photo 1 of 2	The state funeral of Isoroku Yamamoto, Tokyo, Japan, 5 Jun 1943, photo 2 of 2