Japan 1600-2014

JAPAN 1600-2014

Maurice Ward, professor at faculty of human and environmental studies Kanto Gakuin university Yokohama Japan. Pro-Muslim.

Clan family trees of Japanese families. http://www.samurai-archives.com/clanindex.html (family history on the net. Colin Waters ©2007 UK).

1600-1868 – After 1600 the Tokugawa clan. the Shogunate. The system was overthrown in 1868 during the Meiji restoration. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton ©2009 UK).

1831-1969 – British general register office. Foreign returns. Second world war deaths. British prisoners of war in German and Japanese camps and civilians. (Family tree. Dec 2009 p7).

1860-1960 – Eiko Maruko Siniawer. Ruffians Yakuza Nationalists the violent politics of modern Japan 1860-1960. Ithaca NY Cordell ©2008 ISBN 0-8014-4720-8

1868 – Japan’s rapid industrialization dates from 1868. (The momentous years. p47 Priestly & Betts ©1961).

1873 – Japan, end Julian calendar and beginning Gregorian calendar. (Ancestry. March April 2007 p21).

1881-1930s – The Kempeitai was also a tool of propaganda. Conducting experiments in a series of countries in Asia, like Auschwitz. The Kempeitai was an old organisation. It was founded in 1881. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton. ©2009 UK).

12 August 1901 – 8 Sept 1903 – LDS Apostle Heber J Grant organises and presides over the first mission in Japan. (Teachings Presidents. Heber J Grant ©2002 US).

1908-1930s – The Anglican bishop in southern Japan, correspondence at the British PRO, installation as bishop visits to Japan following the Second World War. (Family history monthly. March 2002 p54).

1910 – Vickers were bidding against Armstrong to build the battleship Kongo for Japan. They arranged to pay large suns to Japans rear Admiral Fujii who was advising on estimates. Vickers got the contract worth 2.4 million pounds. The Kongo was delivered three years later. An inquiry said the web of bribery which included the rear Admiral and agents Mitsui who bribed a friend in the naval stores department. Trials followed the rear Admiral went to jail and the PM Yamamoto resigned. (Arms bazaar. ©1977 Sampson).

1910 – Korea was part of the Japanese empire since 1910 when the Japanese resistance collapsed in summer 1945 at the end of World War Two.

1914 – Vickers, like Armstrong’s were suppliers to the Japanese navy, and with their agents Mitsui were said to handle quarter of Japans foreign trade. (Arms bazaar. ©1977 Sampson).

12 June 1924 – In “Japanese mission of church closed” Deseret news p6.

1926 – Hirohito succeeded his father as Emperor. (History today. Feb 2014 p9).

1928 – In Hiroshima, Japan had a chemical weapons facility, mustard gas, in 1928. In the 1930s they removed the factory. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton. ©2009 UK).

1929-30 – The wall street crash of 1929 hurt Japans economy. Families starved. By 1930 the population of Japan was about 65 million. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton ©2009 UK)

1930s – Japans wartime military police was the Kempeitai or corps of law soldiers, like Germanys gestapo. Bridge house in Shanghai was a torture centre for the Kempeitai during the Second World War. Millions died by the hands of the Kempeitai. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton. ©2009 UK).

1930s – The Great Depression, labour and social unrest in Japan. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton. ©2009 UK).

1930-31 – In 1930 PM was Osachi Hamaguehi. In Nov 1930 Hamaguchi was wounded by an assassin who shot the PM. In 1931 a military coup was planned in Tokyo. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton. (c)2009 UK).

1931-1945 – David Gordon. The China Japan war. Journal of military history 2006. Wikipedia.

1932 – Pearl harbour had been a focus of Japanese navy attention since 1932. When, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of the Japanese navy, was watching US navy exercises. (Espionage. ©1995 Volkman).

1936 – A group of young Japanese army officers launched a coup in Tokyo. They were arrested and executed. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton. ©2009 UK).

1940 – By 1940 Yamamoto had worked out the details of Operation 2, a southward thrust of Japans naval power, preceded by a strike against the US Pacific fleet, that would prevent the US from reinforcing vital bastions like the Philippines. (Espionage. ©1995 Volkman).

27 July 1940 – The Kempeitai first murdered a British subject in 1940. Melville Jimmy Cox, a 40 year old Reuters correspondent in Tokyo. He was charged with espionage. He was killed in June 1942. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton. ©2009 UK).

25 July 1941 – All Japanese assets in the US were frozen. Japanese military fatalities between 1937 and 1945 were 2.1 million. Wikipedia.

5 Dec 1941 – Ito Morimura, vice consul at the Japanese consulate in Honolulu, received a message from Tokyo. He was told to tell them which warships were in Pearl Harbour. Morimura had been spying on Pearl Harbour for months. Japan was about to go to war against the US, beginning with an attack on Pearl Harbour. (Espionage. ©_1995 Volkman).

7 Dec 1941 – Japanese strike against Pearl Harbour, which Hitler used as an excuse to declare war on the US, four days later. (The cold war. ©2005 JL Gaddis).

7-11 Dec 1941 – An aircraft carrier struck the US navy fleet of ships in Pearl Harbour. Ships sank, others were damaged and more than 2,400 Americans were killed. The US declared war on Japan 11 Dec 1941. (Ancestry. July August 2007 p28).

8 Dec 1941 – Japanese troops, rape, sex slavery “comfort women” from a variety of nationalities. Women forced into sex slavery by the Kempeitai. 60,000 to 200,000 women were forced into sex slavery in military brothels in Korea and China. Institutionalised brothels. The British did the same in India during the 19^th century. “Comfort stations” as the Kempeitai called brothels. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton. ©2009 UK).

10 Dec 1941 – In December 1941 Malaya was invaded by Japan, whose forces swept south through the peninsula, overrunning the British, Indian and Australian forces which faced them on 10 Dec 1941, the Royal navy suffered loss of the battleships, HMS Repulse and Prince of Wales, as a result of attacks by Japanese torpedo bombers.

World War Two – Japanese military brothels, 200,000 women and girls were sex slaves in these camps and brothels. Philippines, China, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and Taiwan. Sex slave camps. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

1942-43 – Forced native women into sex slavery. 300 Dutch women, Jan 1942. Military police the Tokeitai ran brothels and torture chambers similar to the Kempeitai “comfort women” in military brothels up to mid 1943. In Java, Batavia, Bamndoeng, Pakalonean, Magelang, Semarang and Bond Owoso. 20,000 women from internment camps. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton. ©2009 UK).

1942-45 – Mark Felton. Yanagi. The secret underwater trade between Germany and Japan. Pen and sword books ltd. 2005.

1943-44 – June 1943 European women from internment camps. Late 1943, Dec 1943, Nov 1943 prisoners held at Muntilan internment camp. 25 Jan 1944, Feb 1944 Seven women’s internment camps in Java, against the Geneva conventions. Rapes and sadism in Java “comfort women”. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton. ©2009 UK).

1944-2007 – On 17 April 2007, Yoshimi and Hirofumi Hayashi found documents from the Tokyo trials. Military tribunal, war crimes by Japan. Officials of the Tokeitai military police sex trafficked women into brothels in China, Indonesia and Indochina. 1944 documents, military camps for sex slavery “comfort women”. Thousands of sex slaves died in camps and no one claimed their bodies. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

June 1944-August 1945 – Relentless US bombing raids on Japan from June 1944 to August 1945 killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians and destroyed nearly two thirds of the buildings in Japans 66 largest cities, according to a US strategic bombing survey. Even tasking into account the atomic tolls on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, most civilian deaths and injuries were caused by incendiary bombs, forerunner of napalm bombs. Fleets of B-29s loaded with napalm bombs burned at nearly 60% of Tokyo. Nightime attacks involving incendiary bombs. (Vietnam and America. ©2003 D Maraniss).

August 1944 – Japanese instructions on how to interrogate, a Kempeitai handbook. Captured by the Americans in August 1944, starvation. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton ©2009 UK).

1945 – Japan operated 676 slave camps in 1945, 140,000 white prisoners were held in these camps. Kempeitai. River valley road camp 17 near Omuta in Japan. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton ©2009 UK).

1945-48 – Tokyo trials, April 1946 to Nov 1948. The Japanese government got North American funding for the creation of sex slavery camps 1945 military sex camps. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

1945-1988 – Descriptive analysis of Japanese organised crime, the Boryokudan from 1945-1988. FF Y Huang and MS Vaughn. Article. International criminal justice review.

August 1945 – After the atom bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Hirohito surrendered. (History today. Feb 2014).

6 August 1945 – The US B-265 bomber planes appeared in Japanese skies and dropped an 8,900 pound atomic bomb on Hiroshima. This bomb destroyed 90% of the city of Hiroshima.

6 August 1945 – An American B-52 bomber drops the world’s first atomic bomb, devastating the Japanese city of Hiroshima and its inhabitants. (Family history. August 2009 p11).

8 August 1945 – Two days after the dropping by the US of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and on the day before a second being dropped on Nagasaki, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan. Its armies advanced through Manchuria and continued south into Korea.

14 August 1945 – Unconditional surrender of Japan. (The momentous years. ©1961 Priestly and Bell).

29 August 1945 – A US B-29 bomber plane flies towards Kyushu island, southwest Japan. The plane changed direction and dropped the bomb on Nagasaki.

1950 – Materials on the trial of former servicemen of the Japanese army, manufacturing and employing bacteriological weapons. Moscow Foreign language publishing house.

Sept 1951 – The Japanese peace treaty was concluded in Sept 1951, by the Republican senator John Foster Dulles. It returned full sovereignty to Japans home islands, while granting US landing rights over the Ryukyu chain and the main US base of Okinawa. The US also had the right to keep military bases in Japan. (Cold war. (c)1993 M Walker).

1954 – A Soviet intel officer, Yuri Rastvorov,  ran a Soviet espionage ring in Japan, out of  the Soviet embassy in Tokyo, he defected to the west. He contacted Australians. (Too secret too long. Chapman Pincher ©1984 US).

1956 – Nikolai Petrovich Koshkin was a KGB agent in Japan. The Soviet Union opened an embassy in Tokyo again in 1956. (Under cover lives. ©1998 H Womack).

1956 – By 1956 Japan had the most modern shipyards in the world, and was launching 26% of the worlds shipping, and seizing a lead, it was to maintain for a generation. (Cold war. ©1993 M Walker).

1958-63 – A history of Japan. George Bailey Sansam Sir. Sanford Calif. Stanford uni press. Worldcat database.

19 May 1964 – Kumiko Kudo, female, born Kavasaki Kanagawa Japan.

30 July 1969 – US ambassador to Japan was attacked. AH Meyer was attacked by a knife wielding Japanese citizen.

20 July 1973 – Japanese airlines Tokyo to Amsterdam was hijacked to Libya. 1 hijacker was killed by own grenade.

20 July 1973 – Japan airlines hijack explosion 1 killed and 1 wounded.

1 August 1973 – US visit of Japanese premier Kakevi Tanaka, Nixon meeting US.

1978 – In Japan, BCCI started with a representative office in Tokyo in 1978. Four years later it established a branch in Tokyo

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1980 – Japan at war. Timelife books. Alexandria VA. Morrister NJ school and library distribution, by silver Burdett co. Worldcat database.

1980s – Japan brought half a million acres of American ranch land in California, Montana, Colorado and Florida, to rise grass fed cattle for beef. (The shadow market. Eric J Weiner ©2010).

27 Oct 1980 – President Kimball dedicated the Tokyo Japan temple. (Teachings of presidents of the church LDS. (c)2006. Int reserve US).

23 June 1985 – Two cargo handlers were killed at Tokyo airport Japan, when a Sikh bomb exploded in an Air Canada aircraft en route to India.

1986-87 – The underground economy in Japan. Tatsuya Yasukochi. Article ME Sharpe journals.

July 1986 – BCCI Tokyo branch opened.

1989 – Peter Williams and David Wallace. Unit 731. The Japanese army’s secret of secrets. London, Hodder Stoughton.

January 1989 – Hirohito died of cancer at the Fuklage palace in Tokyo aged 81, after a reign of 62 years. 24 Feb 1989 Emperor Hirohito’s state funeral. (History today. Feb 2014).

1993 – China raps Japan over review of wartime sex slavery apology. Japan undermining its credibility over 1993 apology for wartime sex slavery. (Global post Beijing Yonhap. 23 June 2014.

1994 – Gavan Daws. Prisoners of the Japanese. POWs of the Second World War. London Pocket books.

1994 – Sheldon H Harris. Factories of death. Japanese biological warfare 1943-45 and the American cover up. New York Routledge.

24 Jan 1994 – Bart van Poelgeest. Report of a study of Dutch government, documents of the forced sex of Dutch women, in the Dutch East Indies, during the Japanese occupation.

1995 – Kempeitai military police disbanded. 1945 counter intelligence Naicho foreign intelligence. (Espionage. ©1995 E Volkman).

17 Jan 1995 – The great Hanshin earthquake hit Kobe, 6,000 people were killed and 44,000 injured, 250,000 houses were destroyed or burned in a fire. Wikipedia.

17 March 1995 – Unmasking horror. A special report. Japan confronts gruesome war atrocity. Nicholas D Kristof. New York Times.

20 March 1995 – Tokyo subway station attack. 12 people were killed and about 5,700 injured in a sarin nerve gas attack, on a crowded subway station, in the centre of Tokyo. A similar attack happened, nearly simultaneously, in the Yokohama subway system. The Aum shinri-kyo cult was blamed for the attacks.

1996 – The Samurai a military history. Stephen R Turnball. Google books.

18 May 1996 – 48 years after the LDS mission reopened, president Gordon B Hinckley visited Japan and spoke. By that time Japan had a temple, church membership had grown to more than 100,000 members in 25 stakes and 9 missions. (Teachings of the president of the church. Heber J Grant ©2002 int reserve US).

1997 – Hidden horrors. Japanese war crimes in World War Two. Yuki Tanaka. Starvation of prisoners of war, rape, forced sex and murder. Google books.

1998 – Shuji Tamura. The techniques of Japanese embroidery. BT Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-7991-4.

1998 – Raymond Lamont Brown. Kempeitei, Japan’s dreaded military police. Stoud Sutton publishing. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton. ©2009 UK).

1999 – Encyclopedia of Genocide vol 1. Israel W Charny. Simon Wiesenthal. Desmod Tutu. Japanese unit 731 and medical experiments that preceded the Nazi Unit 731. A Japanese army unit in Harbin China. A secret regiment headed by Itshiro Ishii, cruel experiments on thousands of people. Google books.

2000 – A history of Japan. Conrad Totman. Google books.

2001 – Julia D Gray. Beginners guide to traditional Japanese embroidery. Search press. ISBN 0-8553-2857-6.

2002 – Lord Russell of Liverpool. The knights of Bushido. A short history of Japanese war crimes. London Greenhill. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton. ©2009 UK).

2004 – Lords of the mafia. Japanese Yakuza. DVD video Australia (Worldcat database).

19 Oct 2004 – Plane nearly hit Tokyo tower.

12 Oct 2006 – Japan bans North Korean ships, imports and citizens.

2007 – The great starvation experiment. Ancel Keys and the men . Todd Tucker. Nazi experiments, medical experiments  by the Japanese. A top secret Japanese military medical detachment called Unit 731. Google books.

1 March 2007 – Japans Abe. No proof of World War Two sex slaves. Washington Post.

2 March 2007 – Doctors of depravity. Christopher Hudson. Daily Mail.

2009 – David P Forsythe. Ishii a secret Togo unit in the village of Beiyinhe in Manchukuo, 100km southeast of Harbin, medical experiments. Encyclopedia of human rights vol 1. Google books.

2009 – A Unit 731 doctor, Masaji Kitano, is president of Japans largest pharmaceutical company, Green Cross. Equivalent of Auschwitz war criminal Dr Joseph Mengalen on the board of directors of Bayer healthcare or GlaxoSmithKline. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton. ©2009 UK).

2009 – Mark Felton. Japan’s Gestapo. Murder, mayhem and torture in wartime Asia. The Kempeitai “comfort women” UK. ISBN 978-1-84415-912-3. Pen and sword books ltd.

2010 – The Yamaguchi-gumi is the largest Yakuza syndicate. The new boss was Kenichi Shinada aged 73. Tokyo Japanese Mafia. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

2010 – Susana Chiariotti, an Argentine lawyer has documented 3,000 cases of Mexican women sex trafficked to Japan. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho (c)2010 UK).

2010 – In Japan, young girls are made into sex slaves. Sex trafficking by the Yakuza, the police say, the sex slaves are just willing prostitutes, who have no rights. Yakuza, their main business is the sex trade. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho. ©2010 UK).

4 Oct 2010 – BBC Pacific. Exploring the world of Japans Yakuza mafia. Dave Lee.

11 March 2011 – Japan suffered the strongest earthquake in its recorded history. Honshu a size 9 magnitude quake and a tsunami. Wikipedia.

7 Dec 2011 – LA Times world. Traces of radiation found in Japanese baby formula.

8 Dec 2011 – Japan imposes new Iran sanctions. Yoree Koh Tokyo. Wall street Journal mid east.

16 September 2013 – Japanese crime syndicates seen cashing in on internet casinos. Yakuza. Gambling is still illegal in Japan. The Yamaguchi Yumi, Japan largest Yakuza gang.

23 June 2014 – CCTV China criticises Japans sex slavery record. Beijing. Japans intention to play down its crimes.

23 June 2014 – Global post. China raps Japan over its review of wartime sex slavery apology. Beijing Yonhap. China criticised Japan for undermining its credibility, of the 1993 apology for wartime sex slavery.

23 June 2014 – China criticised Japans sex slavery record. CCTV Beijing Xinhua. China has criticised Japans review of an apology for its wartime sex slavery saying it exposes Japans intentions

25 June 2014 – Japan unveils world’s first android newscaster. The Rakyak post. Female humanoid robots, otonaroids. Kodonoroid. Tokyo AFP.

25 June 2014 – Tech news. AFP Relaxnews. The Star online. Japan unveils world’s first android newscaster.

28 June 2014 – US lawmakers blast Japan’s review of landmark sex slavery apology. Arirang news. Forcing women into sex slavery, comfort women.

7 July 2014 – The Star AFP. Japan issues highest alert over super typhoon Neoguri. Okinawa.