SOME INFORMATION RELATING TO WORLD WAR TWO JAPAN AND GERMANY
SOME INFORMATION RELATING TO WORLD WAR TWO
JAPAN AND GERMANY
Friday 9th January 2026
JAPAN
1. Attacked Pearl Harbour, United States of America with capital in Washington D.C., North America.
Japan sunk ships of the United States of America with its capital in Washington D.C., North America and had its ships sunk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Navy_losses_in_World_War_II
Atomic bomb was dropped twice on Japan.
2. Technically, Japan doesn't have an official military, thanks to Article 9 of its post-war constitution. This clause, written under U.S. supervision, renounces war and prohibits Japan from maintaining “land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential.”
The Japanese Constitution, which was adopted by the Supreme Command for the Allied Powers during the occupation of Japan after World War II, stipulates that Japan will never maintain a military as well as other war potential. However, rising tensions during the Cold War led to the reinterpretation of the constitution to allow for the right to self-defense, eventually leading to the creation of the Japan Self-Defense Forces in 1954 that functions as the country's de facto military.
The JSDF is legally constrained by the Article 9 of the Constitution, which renounces Japan's right to declare war or use military force in international disputes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Self-Defense_Forces
3. Post-World War II Assistance to Japan
Total U.S. assistance to Japan for the years of the occupation, from 1946-1952 was roughly $2.2 billion ($15.2 billion in 2005 dollars), of which almost $1.7 billion was grants and $504 million was loans.
Percentage of assistance that was loans was approximately 22.91%.
4. In January 2025, Japan established a Diplomatic Mission to NATO, further enhancing opportunities for political dialogue with the Alliance.
https://www.nato.int/en/what-we-do/partnerships-and-cooperation/relations-with-japan
5. The Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaiʻi has tallied 1,330 Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans from Hawai'i incarcerated during World War II. Of these, 370 were incarcerated at Honouliuli at some point; many more were sent to mainland camps.
https://guides.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/Hawaii_incarceration
During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), mostly in the western interior of the country. About two-thirds were U.S. citizens. These actions were initiated by Executive Order 9066, issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, following Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. About 127,000 Japanese Americans then lived in the continental U.S., of which about 112,000 lived on the West Coast.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans
120,000 out of 127,000 Japanese Americans is about 94.49%.
GERMANY
1. Sunk American ships and had its ships sunk.
Attacked the United Kingdom, a major ally to the United States of America with capital in Washington D.C., North America in World War Two.
Battle of Britain, during World War II, the successful defense of Great Britain against unremitting and destructive air raids conducted by the German air force (Luftwaffe) from July through September 1940, after the fall of France.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Britain-European-history-1940
Chronological List of U.S. Ships Sunk or Damaged 1939 to 1941
Ships Captured or Detained 1939 (80 ships)
http://www.usmm.org/sunk39-41.html
It should be noted that reports state that there were between 350 and 363 air bombing raids on Berlin, Germany in World War 2.
https://x.com/electmonitorng/status/1985210209124389130?t=qtFqWAMh8tmF9YNV_bDnmw&s=19
2. The German Army (German: Heer, 'army') is the land component of the armed forces of Germany. The present-day German Army was founded in 1955 as part of the newly formed West German Bundeswehr together with the Marine (German Navy) and the Luftwaffe (German Air Force). As of 2024, the German Army had a strength of 63,047 soldiers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Army
3. The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred $13.3 billion (equivalent to $137 billion[A] in 2024[B]) in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II in Europe.
The United Kingdom (received about 26% of the total). The next highest contributions went to France (18%) and West Germany (11%). This comes to about 55% of the Marshall Plan Funds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan
Out of the total, 1.2 billion USD were loan-aid. Since the total economic support the program involved was of $13 billion in contemporaneous time (roughly $132 billion in Sept 2017 money), only 10% approx of the aid was in form of loans. The UK received 385 million USD of its Marshall Plan aid in the form of loans.
19 Sept 2017
https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/18337/was-the-aid-in-the-marshall-plan-a-loan
4. The Allies sign the Accession Protocol for Germany at NATO Headquarters, which was formerly located in Paris, in October 1954. Germany joined the Alliance in May of the following year. Germany became a NATO member on 6 May 1955.
www.nato.int › about-us › organization
5. Internment of German Americans
Internment of German resident aliens and German-American citizens occurred in the United States during the periods of World War I and World War II. During World War II, the legal basis for this detention was under Presidential Proclamation 2526, made by President Franklin D. Roosevelt under the authority of the Alien Enemies Act.
By the time of WWII, the United States had a large population of ethnic Germans. Among residents of the United States in 1940, more than 1.2 million persons had been born in Germany, 5 million had two native-German parents, and 6 million had one native-German parent. Many more had distant German ancestry. During WWII, the United States detained at least 11,000 ethnic Germans, overwhelmingly German nationals between the years 1940 and 1948 in two designated camps at Fort Douglas, Utah, and Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans
11,000 out of 12.2 million Germans in the United States of America at the time is about 0.009%.
During the war, some 16,112,566 Americans served in the United States Armed Forces,[2] with 407,316 killed and 671,278 wounded.[3] According to the US Department of Defense, of the 407,316 dead, about 250,000 were killed in the European theater, the remaining 160,000 died in the Pacific War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_the_United_States_during_World_War_II
Written and researched by Abiodun Mohammed Adeyemi Ajijola
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