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Japan will become super power in next century

Japan, (call Nippon/Nihon, literally "the origin of the sun" or less literally "Land of the Rising Sun" ) is an island country east of the Asian continent on the western edge of the Pacific Ocean. The Population is 128 million and size is half size of Alberta, Canada.

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Japanese submarine aircraft carriers

The Imperial Japanese Navy's I-400, the largest Submarine of WWII.

Japanese submarine aircraft carriers (Japanese Submarine Typ I-401 Sen Toku)

 Submarine aircraft carriers are submarines equipped with airplanes for observation or attack missions. These submarines became the biggest of the World War II, although their operational significance remained rather small. The most famous of them are the and the French submarine Surcouf, although afew related attempts were made by a few other navies as well.

Team Locates Sub ThatSankthe U.S.S. Indianapolis

In what has been called the "worst disaster in U.S. naval history," the U.S.S. Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese submarine on July 30, 1945, sinking in 12 minutes, and of the 1,196 men on board, only 316 survived. Two Texas A&M University researchers have located the sub that sank it.

William Bryant, professor of oceanography, and Brett Phaneuf, a graduate student in oceanography, located the sub about three weeks ago in waters about 60 miles off the coast of Nagasaki. Their efforts to locate the sub, named the I-58, have been funded by the Discovery Channel, which will air a special on the project next fall.

The I-58 was intentionally scuttled by U.S. military forces following World War II, Phaneuf says, for fear that Russia might acquire it and other Japanese subs for the advanced technological equipment they contained. In all, 24 Japanese subs were intentionally sunk.

"The area surveyed contained the remains of 24 submarines, the largest collection of sunken submarines in the world," says Bryant, professor of oceanography and leader of the mission.

"In addition, this area contains one of the largest submarines ever built, the Sen Toku I-402, which means 'special submarine.' "

"We had the location of where these subs might be, but it's rare when you find sunken ships exactly where they are supposed to be," Phaneuf explains.

"We were lucky to find one, and it happened to be the I-58." The Texas A&M researchers sent a robotic vehicle to the I-58, which is located 675 feet down, too far for human divers. Photographs and video taken by the robotic vehicle confirmed that it was indeed the I-58, which fired torpedoes that sank the Indianapolis.

In 1941 December 7th, Japanese navy attacked "Pearl Harbor" and World War II beguan then August 6, 1945 at 8:15 am the city of Hiroshima suffered the impact of one of the single most destruction weapons ever used. An atomic bomb was dropped from an American bomber named the Enola Gay. The Bomb caused widespread destruction and many human casualties. A three days later another bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. These two atomic bombs sped up what Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Britain, believed to be inevitable even before the bomb was dropped, the unconditional surrender of Japan.

The story of the U.S.S. Indianapolis is often called the worst naval disaster ever and one of the darkest chapters in U.S. military history. The ship was on a top-secret mission to carry the materials for the first atomic bomb to the island of Tinian, from where the bomb would be fully assembled for its drop over Hiroshima. After delivering its cargo, the ship was on its return voyage when it was sunk by the I-58.

Most of the crew was cast adrift in the ocean following the attack with no lifeboats or food, and many of them died from shark attack or exposure.The remaining 316 men of the 1,196-member crew were not picked up until four days later.

The ship's captain, Charles Butler McVay, survived and was later court-martialed for failing to zigzag, a maneuver to avoid enemy attack. In a highly unusual move, the Navy flew in the Japanese captain of the I-58 to testify against McVay in the court martial proceedings.

The crew of the Indianapolis unanimously supported McVay, saying he was an excellent captain and that the Navy used him only as a scapegoat, pointing out that 350 ships were lost in World War II and McVay was the only captain to be court-martialed. For McVay, their efforts were wasted - after years of guilt, inner torment and failure to clear his name, he committed suicide in 1968.

In July of 2001, the Navy officially exonerated McVay of wrongdoing. The sinking of the Indianapolis has been the subject of numerous books and articles, and was immortalized in the movie Jaws in which the grizzled shark hunter Quint recalls fighting off the sharks that killed most of his fellow Indianapolis crewmembers.

"The I-58 is one of the most famous Japanese ships simply because it's the one that sank the Indianapolis," Phaneuf says. "But we're trying to find some of the other 23 other subs near the same location."

One the team hopes to locate is the I-402 (unlike American and British ships, the Japanese did not name ships after people or places but assigned them numbers). The I-402, Phaneuf says, is one of the largest subs ever built - so large that it was capable of transporting aircraft inside its huge hulls.

"We'll go back and see if we can locate it," he says. "The Japanese government has been very cooperative in all of this. They have helped us whenever possible. There is a lot of history in these sunken ships, and we'd like to learn more about them."

Source: Aggie Daily

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Zero fighter

The Mitsubishi A6M Zero ("Zeke")

The Japanese began World War II with a number of weapons that gave them a decisive advantage during their first half-year's rampage across the Pacific. One of them was a superbly maneuverable, well-armed naval fighter designated the"A6M", better known simply as the "Zero".

In the hands of well-trained Japanese pilots, the Zero gave the Imperial Japan Navy air superiority in its wave of conquests. In reality, however, although the "Zero"had a number of advantages, it had significant limitations as well, and as Allied pilots took its measure it slowly declined from a master of the skies to a suicide craft. This document describes the rise and fall of the Zero fighter.
So when Japanese fighter pilots during WWII got into dogfights that were going poorly, they naturally considered the "honorable"option of crashing their planes into enemy airfighters. Crashing an airplane into another airplane is actually trickier than you might think, and generally the only casualty is the other plane, so air-to-airkamikaze wasn't really a cost-effective battle strategy.




"divine wind"


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The word kamikaze means "divine wind"

In 1281 the Mongol?fs armada, led by Kublai Khan were attempting to take over the Japanese islands. Kublai Khan?fs plan was practically assured, but a typhoon pushed back and destroyed the Mongol fleet. The typhoon was said to have been sent by God; the Divine Wind (Inoguchi xi). The name kamikaze says a great deal about how the Japanese felt towards kamikaze missions and kamikaze pilots, as if the idea of the kamikaze was of divine origin.

The idea of suicide as a part of national military policy was completely new in the history of warfare. The surprise attacks were to take the Americans completely by surprise. They were bewildered by the Japanese suicide missions, completely unable to comprehend the mentality behind them.

The Japanese people who said farewell to kamikaze pilots saw them wave goodbye with smiles and remembered them with affection. Those left behind saw nothing of either their being shot down from the sky or their crashing into American ships, so they remembered thepilots as young heroes who bravely went to their deaths in defense of their homeland.





Yamato

Yamato (Battleship, 1941-1945)

Yamato, lead ship of a class of two 65,000-ton (over 72,800-tons at full load) battleships, was built at Kure, Japan. She and her sister, Musashi were by far the largest battleships ever built, even exceeding in size and gun caliber (though not in weight of broadside) the U.S. Navy's abortive Montana class. Their nine 460mm (18.1-inch) main battery guns, which fired 1460kg (3200 pound) armor piercing shells, were the largest battleship guns ever to go to sea, and the two ships' scale of armor protection was also unsurpassed.



Symbol of Glory

The Imperial Seal of Japan is called ?e???? Kiku No Gomon in Japanese, which, literally, means "Noble Symbol of Chrysanthemum" or "Imperial Seal of Chrysanthemum" .
A golden, chrysanthemum-shaped shield more than six feet in diameter protruded from the ship's bow and was visible for miles. Such "Kikusui" crests, named for a hero and martyr of the 14th century, appeared on only the most important ships of the Imperial Navy battleships, aircraft carriers, and cruisers. The only other element of the ship painted gold was the ship's name, which like the crest was a powerful symbol. "Yamato" is a poetic, even mystical synonym for Japan itself.




Space battleship "YAMATO"

Space Battleship Yamato

Space Battleship Yamato (known as Star Blazers in the U.S.) uses a very interesting ship design for transporting its crew. The Yamato's design incorporated an alien engine design called a Wave Motion engine which allowed the Yamato to sail along the "waves of space," so to speak, in order to travel to their destination. Seeing that the Yamato is an old style naval battleship, when it was reconstructed, a new and incredible arsenal of weapons was added. Besides the many laser turrets that bristle the forward and aft decks, the Yamato also has a main particle beam cannon. Thus with this new type of battleship the captain and crew are ready to make the voyage to save the human race. Yamato is the story of the desperate struggle of the crew of the Yamato to find a planet called Iscandar which has the cure to deadly radiation that the earth has been subject to by a race of beings known as the Gamilons. In the late twenty-first century the earth is attacked and all but destroyed by the Gamilons. The remaining human population is then forced to move underground. But the radiation that was left behind by the Gamilon's weapons is moving more and more each day into the earth's surface and closer to where the humans have moved for protection. As it stands, the humans have exactly one year left before everyone will die.


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