Mitsubishi G3M Type 96 "Rikko" Japanese attack air-plane. Extensively used in China, less known in the Pacific theatre.

Picture taken 1936.
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Mitsubishi G3M

Kwantung army soldiers with a Type 96 light machine gun during training, 1942

Type 96 light machine gun

5-6 November 1943. The conference was attended by Japanese delegates and delegates from collaborating regimes.

Left to right:
-) Ba Maw: Head of the State of Burma
-) Zhang Jinghui: Prime Minister of Manchukuo
-) Wang Jingwei: President of the Reformed Government of the Republic of China
-) Hideki Tojo: Prime Minister of Japan
-) Prince Wan Waithayakon: envoy from the Kingdom of Thailand
-) José P. Laurel: President of the Second Philippine Republic
-) Subhas Chandra Bose:  Head of State of Provisional Government of Free India (Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind)

Goal of this conference was to boost the relationship between Japan and other nations with granting them "independence", to make them more willing allies in the fight against the Western Allies.