Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous

[vikingBerserker]

Just amazing to me

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots shinpachi!

 

[Shinpachi]

Scale models I built 50 years ago.
My niece sent me this from my old home yesterday.
This is nothing but a picture of the day !

 

[Shinpachi]

The first 202 Korean volunteers enters IJA's training school in Seoul on June 15, 1938.
They were selected from almost 2,900 applicants.

 

[michaelmaltby]

... important to understand what-was-what.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots shinpachi!

 

[Shinpachi]

European citizens under the total war introduced to the Japanese people in April, 1941.
No war without recycling metals.

 

[Wurger]

 

[SaparotRob]

I'm curious as to the advertisement on post # 2827. I'm sure it's vitamins but the company name? Does it have a "catchy" slogan?

 

[Shinpachi]

It says like this -

 

[michaelmaltby]

Riken - Wikipedia

 

[SaparotRob]

It says like this -

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Thank you. It somehow makes it more human knowing the advertisements. Seeing the mundane day to day things printed, even in war, makes it more relatable.

 

[SaparotRob]

Riken - Wikipedia

They have quite an alumni.

 

[Shinpachi]

Thank you. It somehow makes it more human knowing the advertisements. Seeing the mundane day to day things printed, even in war, makes it more relatable.

What the world did not acknowledge well would be that Japanese casualties in the Pacific War was about 3% of the population and most of the citizens maintained almost ordinary lives. This would be why the Japanese society recovered from the damage of war so quickly. I am surprised to see a Japanese old movie "Wonderful Sunday (1947)" because the war victims were already treated as the minority in two years after the war was over.

Japanese movie "Wonderful Sunday (1947)" - A poor man searching for better job.

Source: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6O2FfvpUCo

 

[SaparotRob]

What the world did not acknowledge well would be that Japanese casualties in the Pacific War was about 3% of the population and most of the citizens maintained almost ordinary lives. This would be why the Japanese society recovered from the damage of war so quickly. I am surprised to see a Japanese old movie "Wonderful Sunday (1947)" because the war victims were already treated as the minority in two years after the war was over.

Japanese movie "Wonderful Sunday (1947)" - A poor man searching for better job.
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Source: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6O2FfvpUCo

Very enlightening. Not at all what I would have thought. Good stuff!

 

[nuuumannn]

Does it have a "catchy" slogan?

You could make one up!

 

[nuuumannn]

They have quite an alumni.

Sure do:

Kikunae Ikeda, discoverer of monosodium glutamate and the umami flavor

The yummiest invention (that will give you heart disease...)

Yoshio Nishina, leading atomic physicist who worked with Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg and Dirac

...as well as Ernest Rutherford, who was the director of the Cavendish Laboratory at the time of Nishina's visit. Throughout his career Rutherford tutored an astonishing 11 future Nobel Prize winners, including Bohr, with whom he researched the make up of the atom as we know it.

 

[SaparotRob]

You could make one up!

Do you know what happens to people here who make stuff up?

 

[nuuumannn]

Do you know what happens to people here who make stuff up?

It's all about attention, laddie...

 

[Snautzer01]

1942 Press Photo Japanese aviators taken prisoner after being shot down, Manila | eBay