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Based on the Anti-Comintern Protocol signed between Japan, Italy and Germany in Rome on November 6, 1937, Italian Fascist Goodwill Mission led by Marquis Giacomo Paulucci visited Tokyo from March 19, 1938 for a month. Italian light cruiser Raimondo Montecuccoli also entered Kobe on April 10. A series of these photos show enthusiastic welcome by the Japanese people at the time.

 
Shinpachi said:
Italian light cruiser Raimondo Montecuccoli
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Excellent. Name ship of the third group of Condottieri Class cruisers (of which there were 12 completed of five groups, the sixth group ships were not finished), the ship had a long career, being converted into a cadet training ship after the war and was eventually scrapped, with components surviving in a park near Perugia, Italy.

More info here:

Italian cruiser Raimondo Montecuccoli - Wikipedia

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Japan's another anti-comintern ally Nazi Germany sent the Condor aircraft as a goodwill mission from Berlin to Tokyo on November 28, 1938. She flew for two days via Basra and Hanoi and arrived at the Tachikawa airfield, Tokyo on the 30th.



At Tachikawa


Crews welcomed by German citizens in Tokyo


Japanese goodwill mission Takarazuka Revue girls who happened to visit Berlin had a chance to get aboard the Condor for Rome. Photo shows girls receive service in a bus.


His Highness Prince Chichibu (Hirohito's younger brother) shakes hands with Captain Henke and his crew


The Condor had ditched offshore Manila on her way back to Berlin on December 6. All crew rescured.


Ditched Condor.
 
Shinpachi-san, can you give any information about the make-ups of two ladies in Kimono, in 5th photo from above?
 
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