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    Kaiten (回天, lit. 'Turning the Heaven', commonly rendered as 'turn of the Heaven's will' or 'the heaven shaker') were crewed torpedoes and suicide craft...
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  • Look up kaiten in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kaiten were a Japanese World War II suicide torpedo. Kaiten may also refer to: Kaiten, a rolling maneuver...
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  • Onmyō Kaiten Re:verse (陰陽廻天 Re:バース, Onmyō Kaiten Re:Bāsu) is an upcoming original Japanese anime television series created by Fujiko Sakuno, Hideya Takahashi...
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    was modified to carry Kaiten manned torpedoes, making several attacks that inflicted minor damage in exchange for every Kaiten launched being sunk. The...
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  • have been collected into twenty-three tankōbon volumes. In March 2020, Kaiten Books announced that they had licensed the manga for English publication...
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    Kaiten Memorial Museum (回天記念館, Kaiten Kinen-kan) is a museum on the island of Ōzushima in the Inland Sea, in Shūnan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, dedicated...
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    Kaiten Books LLC is an independent American language localization and publishing company located in Southern California. The company focuses on the translation...
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    Conveyor belt sushi (Japanese: 回転寿司, Hepburn: kaiten-zushi), also called revolving sushi or rotation sushi, is a type of sushi restaurant common in Japan...
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    increased to 1.6 tons for Kaiten. The Type 93 torpedo is 9.61 m (31.5 ft) long and weighs about three tons, while the Kaiten was 15 m (49 ft) long and...
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    so, and this provision was dropped from later production kaitens. The inventor of the Kaiten, Lt. Hiroshi Kuroki was lost during one of the first training...
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    Ningen Gyorai Kaiten (人間魚雷回天, Ningen gyorai kaiten), literally Human-Steered Torpedo Kaiten, is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Shūe...
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  • "Kaiten Books Licenses 3 Manga for Digital Release in 2021". Anime News Network. Retrieved September 8, 2021. Hazra, Adriana (May 12, 2021). "Kaiten Books...
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    Takao Maru (高雄丸), later renamed Kaiten No.2 (第二回天, Daini Kaiten), was a steam warship of the former navy of the Tokugawa shogunate during the Boshin War...
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    Yoshiaki Shiraishi opened the first conveyor belt sushi restaurant (回転寿司, kaiten-zushi) named "Genroku Zushi" in Higashi-Osaka. In conveyor belt sushi restaurants...
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    submarine before she was converted into a kaiten suicide attack torpedo carrier. She then conducted kaiten operations during the Battle of Iwo Jima and...
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  • volumes as of March 2024. The manga adaptation is licensed in English by Kaiten Books. An anime television series adaptation was announced at the Overlap...
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    due to engine trouble, the Takao trailed behind, and the Kaiten first joined battle. The Kaiten approached the enemy ships and raised the Bakufu flag seconds...
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    the Imperial Japanese Navy. Commissioned in July 1944, she operated as a kaiten manned suicide attack torpedo carrier during the final year of World War...
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    and in 1944 took command of I-58, a submarine which was equipped to carry kaiten manned torpedoes. After a number of unsuccessful operations, under the command...
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    Bay. Enomoto's fleet consisted of four warships (Kaiyō maru (flagship), Kaiten maru, Banryū maru and Chiyodagata maru) and four transport ships (Kanrin...
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    missions between Japan and outlying islands until she was converted into a kaiten suicide attack torpedo carrier. She survived the war, surrendered to Allied...
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    Aleutian Islands campaign, and the Marshall Islands. She finished the war as a kaiten manned suicide attack torpedo carrier, operating against Allied ships at...
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    Republic were grouped around the warship Kaiten. The fleet originally consisted of eight steamships: Kaiten, Banryū, Japanese gunboat Chiyoda, Chōgei...
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    via the Kaiten warship, but Kōtetsu repelled the attack and mowed them down with a Gatling gun. Many others including the captain of Kaiten were also...
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  • so, and this provision was dropped from later production kaitens. The inventor of the Kaiten, Lt. Hiroshi Kuroki was lost during one of the first training...
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    Mediterranean, and the Pacific until her sinking in a suicide attack by a Japanese Kaiten manned torpedo on 24 July 1945. Samuel Jackson Underhill was born on 25...
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  • varied fleet of submarines of World War II, including manned torpedoes (Kaiten), midget submarines (Kō-hyōteki, Kairyū), medium-range submarines, purpose-built...
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    campaign at the time of the Battle of Leyte Gulf. She then operated as a kaiten torpedo carrier, including during the Battle of Okinawa, before she was...
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    Japan's first screw-driven steam warship Chōyō (1858) Kaiyō Maru (1866) Kaiten Banryū Chogei Shinsoku Mikaho Yoshun(ja:陽春丸) Kasuga Chiyodagata (1863),...
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    at Hikari for conducting kaiten attacks. Rear Admiral Nagai Mitsuru was the Commanding Officer. On that same day, a kaiten crew training unit is also...
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