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Volunteer Fighting Corps

Index Volunteer Fighting Corps

were armed civil defense units planned in 1945 in the Empire of Japan as a last desperate measure to defend the Japanese home islands against the projected Allied invasion during Operation Downfall (Ketsugo Sakusen) in the final stages of World War II. [1]

40 relations: Army of Tokyo Bay, Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Boeitai, Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Empire of Japan, Fiftieth Army (Japan), Fifty-Fifth Army (Japan), Fifty-First Army (Japan), Fifty-Second Army (Japan), Fifty-Seventh Army (Japan), Fifty-Sixth Army (Japan), Fifty-Third Army (Japan), First General Army (Japan), Fortieth Army (Japan), Great Japan Youth Party, Home Guard (United Kingdom), Imperial Japanese Army, Index of World War II articles (V), Isamu Yokoyama, Japanese Eleventh Area Army, Japanese Fifteenth Area Army, Japanese Fifth Area Army, Japanese holdout, Japanese Seventeenth Area Army, Japanese Sixteenth Area Army, Japanese Tenth Area Army, Japanese Thirteenth Area Army, Japanese Twelfth Area Army, Kuniaki Koiso, List of Japanese government and military commanders of World War II, List of Japanese institutions (1930–45), Matsushiro Underground Imperial Headquarters, Operation Downfall, Resistance movement, Second General Army (Japan), Thirty-Sixth Army (Japan), Tonarigumi, Type 4 grenade, Volkssturm, Yokusan Sonendan.

Army of Tokyo Bay

The was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the final days of World War II.

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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively.

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Boeitai

The Boeitai was a Japanese "home guard" force of World War II.

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Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki concerns the ethical, legal, and military controversies surrounding the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 August and 9 August 1945 at the close of World War II (1939–45).

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Empire of Japan

The was the historical nation-state and great power that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the enactment of the 1947 constitution of modern Japan.

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Fiftieth Army (Japan)

The was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the final days of World War II.

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Fifty-Fifth Army (Japan)

The was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the final days of World War II.

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Fifty-First Army (Japan)

The was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

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Fifty-Second Army (Japan)

The was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the final days of World War II.

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Fifty-Seventh Army (Japan)

The was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the final days of World War II.

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Fifty-Sixth Army (Japan)

The was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the final days of World War II.

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Fifty-Third Army (Japan)

The was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the final days of World War II.

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First General Army (Japan)

The was an army group of the Imperial Japanese Army responsible for the defense of eastern and northern Honshū, including the Tōkai and Kantō regions during the final stage of the Pacific War.

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Fortieth Army (Japan)

The was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the final stages of World War II.

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Great Japan Youth Party

The, later known as the, was a nationalist youth organization in the Empire of Japan modeled after Nazi Germany's Hitler Youth.

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Home Guard (United Kingdom)

The Home Guard (initially Local Defence Volunteers or LDV) was a defence organisation of the British Army during the Second World War.

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Imperial Japanese Army

The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA; Dai-Nippon Teikoku Rikugun; "Army of the Greater Japanese Empire") was the official ground-based armed force of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945.

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Index of World War II articles (V)

# V-1 flying bomb.

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Isamu Yokoyama

was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, commanding Japanese ground forces in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War and Pacific War.

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Japanese Eleventh Area Army

The was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

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Japanese Fifteenth Area Army

The was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the closing stages of World War II.

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Japanese Fifth Area Army

The was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the closing stages of World War II.

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Japanese holdout

or stragglers were Japanese soldiers in the Pacific Theatre who, after the August 1945 surrender of Japan ending World War II, either adamantly doubted the veracity of the formal surrender due to dogmatic militaristic principles, or simply were not aware of it because communications had been cut off by Allied advances.

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Japanese Seventeenth Area Army

The was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the final stages of World War II.

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Japanese Sixteenth Area Army

The was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the closing stages of World War II.

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Japanese Tenth Area Army

The was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

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Japanese Thirteenth Area Army

The was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the final stages of World War II.

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Japanese Twelfth Area Army

The was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

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Kuniaki Koiso

was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army, Governor-General of Korea and 28th Prime Minister of Japan from July 22, 1944, to April 7, 1945.

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List of Japanese government and military commanders of World War II

No description.

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List of Japanese institutions (1930–45)

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Matsushiro Underground Imperial Headquarters

The was a large underground bunker complex built during the Second World War in the town of Matsushiro, which is now a suburb of Nagano, Japan.

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Operation Downfall

Operation Downfall was the proposed Allied plan for the invasion of Japan near the end of World War II.

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Resistance movement

A resistance movement is an organized effort by some portion of the civil population of a country to withstand the legally established government or an occupying power and to disrupt civil order and stability.

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Second General Army (Japan)

The was an army group of the Imperial Japanese Army responsible for the defense of western Honshū, Kyūshū and Shikoku during the final stage of the Pacific War.

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Thirty-Sixth Army (Japan)

The was an army of the Imperial Japanese Army during the final days of World War II.

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Tonarigumi

The was the smallest unit of the national mobilization program established by the Japanese government in World War II.

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Type 4 grenade

The was a “last-ditch” hand grenade developed by the Imperial Japanese Navy in the closing stages of World War II.

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Volkssturm

The Volkssturm ("people's storm") was a national militia established by Nazi Germany during the last months of World War II.

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Yokusan Sonendan

The was an elite para-military youth branch of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association political party of wartime Empire of Japan established in January 1942, and based on the model of the German Sturmabteilung (stormtroopers).

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Redirects here:

Imperial Volunteer Corps.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_Fighting_Corps

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