1943: Japan

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The most important turn in Japan's fortunes or misfortunes during 1943 occurred not in Japan but at the Cairo Conference which began on Nov. 22 between President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and President Chiang Kai-shek. It was this meeting which announced that Japan was to be stripped of... ...