british POWs 

tanks of the japanese army 11th tank regiment led by colonel Matsuo Ikeda attacking soviets troops during the battle of Shumshu Island, the japanese lost 11 of the 27 tanks involved in the attack including colonel Matsuo Ikeda´s tank and the soviet lost 110 soldiers, (august 1945)

tank attack 

Major Kenji Hatanaka was a soldier in the Military Affairs Section of the Japanese Ministry of War, at the end of World War II. He was one of the chief conspirators in a plot to seize the Imperial Palace and prevent the broadcast of Emperor Hirohito's surrender speech. Although the coup failed, it came close to succeeding, and possibly lengthening the war. After the coup failed, he took his own life.
