“Presentation” sword and personal effects (kimono, sashes, suitcase, notebook case, wrist compass and land compass, cigarettes, slippers) of Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita. General Yamashita (1885 –1946) was a leading general in the Japanese Imperial Army throughout World War II. He was most famous for conquering the British colonies of Malaya and Singapore, earning the…
Category: Asian
The Pamplin International Collection of Art and History include many items relating to World War II.
This year’s exhibit showed a Japanese government POW flag, Signed by Prime Minister Tojo and other top ministers of the WWII government of Japan. Obtained by a guard at the Sugamo Prison, where the Japanese officials were incarcerated after the war. A Japanese Surrender card (often such cards were dropped from airplanes into enemy territory…