Japanese soldiers with their Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tanks. Mount Fuji is seen in the background.

Imperial medium tanks

Japanese battleship Fusō was part of Vice-Admiral Shōji Nishimura's Southern Force at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. She was sunk in the early hours of 25 October 1944 by torpedoes and naval gunfire during the Battle of Surigao Strait. Some reports claimed that Fusō broke in half, and that both halves remained afloat and burning for an hour, but according to survivors' accounts, the ship sank after 40 minutes of flooding. Of the few dozen crewmen who escaped, only 10 survived to return to Japan.

Seamen of the Emperor

Japanese soldiers with a dog on a mountainside near the Burmese-Chinese border (with the Chinese province of Yunnan). 