1945-07-01

Japan Volunteer Fighting Corps mobilization

JapanJapan Volunteer Fighting Corps mobilization is a military mobilization record, situated in the defeat-endgame phase linking homeland air raids, food crisis, final mobilization, and surrender politics. It belongs to the wider reshaping of military politics and home-front mobilization in Japan.

Other events in this phase

Japanese Imperial Home Front163
  1. Nagoya air raid
  2. Supreme War Council adopts homeland battle policy
  3. Kyushu air raids intensify
  4. Japan Volunteer Fighting Corps mobilizationCurrent record
  5. Kure naval arsenal raids
  6. Potsdam Declaration received in Tokyo
  7. Surrender-leaflet psychological warfare
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Wartime Position

the defeat-endgame when homeland air raids, food crisis, final mobilization, and surrender politics converged

Japan Volunteer Fighting Corps mobilization is a military mobilization record, situated in the defeat-endgame phase linking homeland air raids, food crisis, final mobilization, and surrender politics. It belongs to the wider reshaping of military politics and home-front mobilization in Japan.

Reading The Record

Placed against nearby events, the location, date, and actors around Japan clarify changes in front lines and governing practice.

Kokumin Giyutai weapons training and Wikimedia Commons · Kokumin Giyutai provide both visual evidence and source context for the event.

Media

Kokumin Giyutai weapons trainingVisual recordKokumin Giyutai weapons trainingA 1945 photograph of female students receiving weapons training under Japan’s final home-defense mobilization. It anchors the geography and surrounding context of “Japan Volunteer Fighting Corps mobilization.”

Source Trail

SourceWikimedia Commons · Kokumin GiyutaiOpen source