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The story of Eiji Sawamura, the Japan baseball ace lost in sunk WWII transport ship
May 3, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
Eiji Sawamura is seen in Hubei province, China, during the war in 1939, in this provided photo. TOKYO Japan s Eiji Sawamura Award, given annually to the top starting pitcher in the Nippon Professional Baseball league, owes its name to a brilliant hurler who had legends, including America s famous player Babe Ruth, swinging at air during a U.S. team visit to Japan before World War II. But even with his talents, Eiji Sawamura (1917-1944) was conscripted three times, serving in the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. He lost his life when a transport ship he was aboard was sunk by U.S. submarines. The Mainichi Shimbun looks back at his life and the circumstances that led to his death in the war.
WWII sinking of battleship Yamato a symbol of Japan s mad war
April 25, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
The forward auxiliary battery on the sunken Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato is seen in this photo provided by the Yamato Museum. TOKYO When the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato weighed anchor in Tokuyama Bay off Yamaguchi Prefecture on the afternoon of April 6, 1945, bound for the waters around Okinawa, its commanders did not expect to return. The largest and most fearsome vessel of its kind on Earth, the Yamato and its crew were to fight and perish in a final titanic struggle against approaching Allied forces.
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