Japanese-Italian War
| Japanese-Italian War | |||||||||
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| Part of the Pacific War | |||||||||
The picture shows the formal Italian declaration of war on Japan, forwarded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden to the Japanese delegation. | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Hisakazu Tanaka Hiraoka Kumeichi |
Carlo dell'Acqua (Captain) Ferruccio Stefenelli Giovanni Mareschin Alberto Stebel Giorgio Galletti Giuseppe Morante Roberto de Leonardis | ||||||||
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Roughly 7,000 Japanese soldiers 15 light tanks/armored vehicles 2 gunboats undefined number of light artillery |
More then 1,079 personnel 300 rifles and pistols 50 machine guns 4 76 mm guns four armored Lancia 1ZM cars Italian destroyer Carabiniere (1938) | ||||||||
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1943 Undefined heavy losses reported 1945 Unknown |
1943 At least 700 POW 1945 Unknown Deaths during imprisonment At least 6 | ||||||||
The Japanese-Italian War was a war between the Kingdom of Italy and the Empire of Japan, which de facto started on 9 September 1943 with the Japanese attack on the Italian concessions in China, and de jure started on July 15, 1945. All aggressive acts between the two nations ended on 2 September 1945. The peace treaty was officially signed in 1951.
The conflict was the result of an escalation of deteriorating Japanese-Italian relations that started in 1940, and the Armistice of Cassibile. Both nations partly recognized that there was a some form of "state of war" declared on 9 September 1943.