MIZOBE Yasuo    Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Global Japanese Studies    Position   Professor
Language	Japanese
Publication Date	2020/03
Type	Bulletin of Universities and Institutes
Peer Review	Peer reviewed
Title	A Brief Report on the Survey of Japanese Army’s Weapons and Belongings in the Ghana Armed Forces Museum Collection
Contribution Type	Sole-authored
Journal Type	Japan
Volume, Issue, Page	pp.235-243
Details	This brief report surveys the Imperial Japanese Army’s weapons and belongings in the Ghana Armed Forces Museum in Kumasi, a collection that comprises 49 items including two Japanese Flags, a mortar, rifles, and bayonets captured by the Gold Coast Regiments in the India–Burma Theatre during World War II. These items are valuable reminders of the unintended encounter between the Africans and Japanese in battlefields in south-eastern Asia during World War II. However, the descriptions on explanatory captions attached to these items have not been examined through objective evidence; therefore, additional archival surveys in Ghana, Britain and Japan and their authentication by experts in items of the Japanese Imperial Army are necessary.