Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (2 Viewers)

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[Shinpachi]

Oil fields in Akita Prefecture, the north-eastern region of Japan, in the 1930s.
Production occupied about 10% of the total domestic demands while the North Sakhalin's contributed about 3% at best.

Source: "Then and Now of Akita Prefecture - from Tomoki Iwata's photo album (1973)"

 

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[Shinpachi]

Looking for more oil fields in overseas in 1941/1942.

Source: Greater East Asian War Photo Album (June 1943)

 

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[Shinpachi]

Japanese color pictures during the wartime.
Probably film was no bad but printing technologies for the publishers.

Sakura (later Konica) color film

Source: Photograph Science (Oct.1944)


Sakura

Source: Japan Photography (May 1944)


Fuji color film

Source: Japan Photography (June 1944)

 

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[Shinpachi]

Fire thrower exercise at the IJA engineering school on July 28, 1942.

Source: Press Photos (Oct.1942)

 

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Fire thrower exercise at the IJA engineering school on July 28, 1942.

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Source: Press Photos (Oct.1942)

Last time Tsunimi served off sushi.

 

[Shinpachi]

Sakura color film was popular but Fuji color film was still under testing during the wartime.

Dr. Kimura and his team at the Keio Hospital in 1943. A test shot by Fuji film.

Source: Press Photos (Nov.1943)

 

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[Shinpachi]

Sakura color in the battlefields.

Occupation of Empire Dock in Singapore in February, 1942

Source: Greater East Asian War Photo Album (June 1943)

 

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[Shinpachi]

Color film comparison between US and Germany in 1944.
Sakura color looks closer to Agfacolor.

Kodachrome(upper half) and Agfacolor(lower half)

Source: Photograph Science (Oct.1944)

 

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[Shinpachi]

A German plane introduced to the Japanese people.

Source: Flight Japan (Sept.1942)

 

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[Gnomey]

Good stuff!

 

[Shinpachi]

Me110 closeup.

Source: Flight Japan (Oct.1942)

 

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