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Japanese Lifestyle during WW2 : A Museum Found!
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Aaron Brooks Wolters
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Thank you Shinpachi.
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You are welcome, Aaron. Any comment is helpful as I do not know exactly how you would feel to see these photos.
In the 5th photo above, you can see a large glass bottle with a long stick. That is to polish rice as polished rice was not available in the market any more in 1945 because of labor shortage. My mother once told me it was her job after school. She had to pick rice some hundred times to get peeled neat rice.
National uniform in the left is type otsu(= b). Type ko(= a) had no chest pockets.
It could be used as military uniform too when enlisted.
A small wooden device on the table is a tobacco roller. I am curious but do not know how to use it.
Tour continues.
Thanks!
In the 5th photo above, you can see a large glass bottle with a long stick. That is to polish rice as polished rice was not available in the market any more in 1945 because of labor shortage. My mother once told me it was her job after school. She had to pick rice some hundred times to get peeled neat rice.
National uniform in the left is type otsu(= b). Type ko(= a) had no chest pockets.
It could be used as military uniform too when enlisted.
A small wooden device on the table is a tobacco roller. I am curious but do not know how to use it.
Tour continues.
Thanks!
A4K
Colonel
Great thread Shinpachi-san, arigatou!
Very interesting to see the Japanese perspective, history books are often so one sided.
Very interesting to see the Japanese perspective, history books are often so one sided.
evangilder
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Thia is great stuff, Shinpachi-san. Very few of us got to see anything like this growing up from the other side. WWII took a very heavy toll on civilians, and Osaka looks like it really took a pounding.
The bomb shelters look like they might help if incendiaries weren't used. General LeMay liked using those on Japanese cities. Having seen footage from some of the Tokyo fire-bombing raids, it was truly horrifying.
The bomb shelters look like they might help if incendiaries weren't used. General LeMay liked using those on Japanese cities. Having seen footage from some of the Tokyo fire-bombing raids, it was truly horrifying.
vikingBerserker
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I agree, and please post everything.
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mikewint
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Shinpachi, very powerful exibits and testimony. Reading the word "enemy" and understanding that it refered to America is a difficult transition as to us "enemy" meant Japan. That testimony could have been written by civilians from any country in WWII. Truely terrible words to read. Thank you, please continue to post
vikingBerserker
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Those pics are powerful, were they painted by kids?
This museum looks like it was well done!
This museum looks like it was well done!
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evangilder
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As Americans, we were pretty much shielded from any of that kind of horror, so it's even more powerful. I am thankful that we are no longer enemies.
Matt308
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I am also, Shinpachi-san. I pray that the ending of the war spared us both nation's the further shedding of unnecessary bloodshed.
A4K
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Wish humans would cultivate wisdom, not budgets, and put an end to wars altogether. Those personal accounts and pictures are heartrending 
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Frankly, I was prepared for furious backlash from your side till I started this thread.
But now I am much impressed with your so many heartful words which are truely based on humanism.
In this point, I think I was still a same Japanese as my fathers and grandfathers.
I must tell you such same humanitarian words as yours were also delivered to the older Japanese during the air raids in the form of handbills from the B-29s.
Mutual cultures were too much different to be understood each other.
They may be still different as the museum does not even translate.
The handbill says "Escape together with your family! We will start bombings within a few days but our targets are military facilities only, not you. Escape! "
I now understand what it meant.
Thank you very much.
Thanks, A4K, for your kind comment too!
But now I am much impressed with your so many heartful words which are truely based on humanism.
In this point, I think I was still a same Japanese as my fathers and grandfathers.
I must tell you such same humanitarian words as yours were also delivered to the older Japanese during the air raids in the form of handbills from the B-29s.
Mutual cultures were too much different to be understood each other.
They may be still different as the museum does not even translate.
The handbill says "Escape together with your family! We will start bombings within a few days but our targets are military facilities only, not you. Escape! "
I now understand what it meant.
Thank you very much.
Thanks, A4K, for your kind comment too!
Crimea_River
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Excellent thread Shinpachi and powerful exhibits indeed.
