Technology

Maker: Kokura Arsenal

Arisaka Type 38 Rifle. This weapon is without a bolt and has received shrapnel damage. The breech top is stamped with three Japanese characters and the chrysanthemum mark. The stock is cracked through...

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Heraldry

Maker: Unknown

Printed rayon Japanese national flag with a pair of cotton ties at each corner of the hoist, reinforced with triangles of gold card. The right side of the flag has two rows of large black ink characte...

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Heraldry

Maker: Unknown

Cotton Japanese national flag, signed in ink by members of family and home town and presented to Zushi Ippei. Patriot slogans featured on the flag include 'Show patriotism for the homeland'; 'Pray for...

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Art

Maker: Ashton, Richard

A captured Japanese camp position at Wewak Heights, New Guinea is depicted. On the verso there are sketches of an island and a landscape.

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Photograph

Commander of the 18th Japanese Army in New Guinea, Lieutenant General Hatazo Adachi, with his Japanese interpreter, Canadian-born Captain Fred Kazuo Iwama, at the table at which he signed the surrende...

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Photograph

Commander of the 18th Japanese Army in New Guinea, Lieutenant General Hatazo Adachi, with his surrender party moving away from Cape Wom airstrip after having signed the surrender document marking the ...

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Art

Maker: Hele, Ivor

Depicts unidentified Australian soldier giving wounded Japanese prisoners-of-war water, New Guinea.

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Technology

Japanese Shin-gunto Army officer's sword and scabbard. The hilt has the standard army style gilded brass shin-gunto fittings with cherry blossom menuki on each side of the handle under the brown bindi...

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Art

Maker: Rowed, Reg

Japanese troops from Muschu Island Prisoner-of-War Camp off the coast at Wewak, boarding the Japanese demilitarised cruiser "Kashima" for repatriation to Japan.

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Art

Maker: Ashton, Richard

A view looking West from the main range showing the Japanese positions behind Wewak Point after Victory in Europe Day, 1945.

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Film

Maker: Fox Movietone News

1. (1 min 36 sec) 13 Sep 1945. Cape Wom Airstrip Wewak, New Guinea, veteran 6th Division in impressive ceremony at Japanese surrender. Lieutenant-General Adachi signs the surrender before Major Genera...

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Photograph

KIARIVU, NEW GUINEA. 1945-09-11. LIEUTENANT GENERAL HATAZO ADACHI, COMMANDER OF THE JAPANESE XVIII ARMY, WITH STAFF OFFICERS AND ORDERLIES AT HEADQUARTERS OF 2/7TH INFANTRY BATTALION, EN ROUTE TO WEWA...

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Photograph

KIARIVU, NEW GUINEA. 1945-09-12. LIEUTENANT GENERAL HATAZO ADACHI, COMMANDER OF THE JAPANESE XVIII ARMY, LEAVING THE HEADQUARTERS OF 2/7TH INFANTRY BATTALION. ON THE FIRST STAGE OF THE JOURNEY TO WEWA...

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Photograph

KIARIVU, NEW GUINEA. 1945-09-12. LIEUTENANT GENERAL HATAZO ADACHI, COMMANDER OF THE JAPANESE XVIII ARMY, IN A LITTER CARRIED BY JAPANESE SOLDIERS AND ACCOMPANIED BY HIS STAFF OFFICERS AND ORDERLIES, A...

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Photograph

KIARIVU, NEW GUINEA. 1945-09-11. LIEUTENANT GENERAL HATAZO ADACHI, COMMANDER OF THE JAPANESE XVIII ARMY, WITH STAFF OFFICERS AND ORDERLIES, RECEIVE INSTRUCTIONS AT HEADQUARTERS OF 2/7TH INFANTRY BATTA...

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Photograph

KIARIVU, NEW GUINEA. 1945-09-11. LIEUTENANT GENERAL HATAZO ADACHI, COMMANDER OF THE JAPANESE XVIII ARMY, WITH STAFF OFFICERS AND ORDERLIES AT HEADQUARTERS OF 2/7TH INFANTRY BATTALION, EN ROUTE TO WEWA...

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Photograph

Lieutenant General Hatazo Adachi, Commander of the 18th Japanese Army in New Guinea, pen in hand, with Japanese interpreter Captain Fred Kazuo Iwama at the table holding the surrender document, during...

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Photograph

Maker: Halliday, Harold Arnold

Lieutenant General Hatazo Adachi, General Officer Commanding VX111 Japanese Army, accompanied by an interpreter, Captain Fred Kazuo Iwama, arrives to attend the surrender ceremony, and salutes Major G...

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Photograph

Maker: Halliday, Harold Arnold

Lieutenant General Hatazo Adachi, General Officer Commanding XVIII Japanese Army, being escorted down the airstrip on his way to the surrender ceremony.

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Photograph

Maker: Halliday, Harold Arnold

Lieutenant General Hatazo Adachi, General Officer Commanding XVIII Japanese Army, watched by Major General H. C. H. Robertson, General Officer Commanding 6th Australian Division, leans over the table ...

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