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Shinpachi said:
Mr. Nobuo Harada's collection at the Kawaguchiko Museum in August 2022.
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Kewl! Always wanted to go there, but it's now only open in the month of August and the museum doesn't allow any sort of cameras except cell phones. I guess you need special permission in advance, maybe? That G4M fuselage is the most complete example of one.
 
Here is Mr. Nobuo Harada's thought on restoring the Zero for Yasukuni Shrine as his first restoration job in the 1980s..

"From around 1980, in order to restore a Zero fighter, I began collecting wreckage that had been left on the South Pacific islands. Abandoned in the tropical wilderness for more than 35 years, the wreckage of the aircraft was tragic.

Around 1985, restoration project began at last. During the restoration, I was able to meet with people who were engaged in the Zero fighter project in 1940 when it was developed and heard many valuable stories. Their memories of that time were still vividly left in their minds but, when they had faced with these ruined remains I collected 40 years later, they must have been disappointed and thought that it would be impossible to restore. This Zero fighter in the Yasukuni Shrine was used as a communication plane in Rabaul after the war was over and the hinomarus on the airframe were re-painted with black cross.

During the Showa era, the Zero fighters played a major role in showing the world high level industrial technologies that Japan possessed. Unfortunately, the war forced Zero fighter an unfortunate path but remember that this fighter used to be a symbol of Japanese pride for technologies and is now a historical legacy which modern Japanese people may have forgotten.

Excerpts from 'Zero Revive!' by Nobuo Harada"

Source: 河口湖飛行館『零戦よ甦れ』DVD 4巻セット [c72tf2545] - 5,442円 :


His first job to donate

Source: 東京九段下｜靖国神社の『遊就館』に行ってきました - 実際使ってみて、どうよ？！
 
 
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The 228 Massacre by KMT in Taiwan on February 28, 1947.
The number of deaths from the incident and massacre was estimated to be between 18,000 and 28,000.

"In 1945, following the surrender of Japan at the end of World War II, the Allies handed administrative control of Taiwan to the Republic of China (ROC), thus ending 50 years of Japanese colonial rule. Local inhabitants became resentful of what they saw as highhanded and frequently corrupt conduct on the part of the Kuomintang (KMT) authorities, including arbitrary seizure of private property, economic mismanagement, and exclusion from political participation. The flashpoint came on February 27, 1947, in Taipei, when agents of the State Monopoly Bureau struck a Taiwanese widow suspected of selling contraband cigarettes. An officer then fired into a crowd of angry bystanders, striking one man who died the next day. Soldiers fired upon demonstrators the next day, after which a radio station was seized by protesters and news of the revolt was broadcast to the entire island. As the uprising spread, the KMT–installed governor Chen Yi called for military reinforcements, and the uprising was violently put down by the National Revolutionary Army. Two years later for the following 38 years, the island was placed under martial law in a period known as the White Terror..."
Source: February 28 incident - Wikipedia


Source: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXFlg7EXUAEAHBv.jpg


Source: 台湾「元同胞」の正義の蹶起と虐殺―現代日本人が知るべき二・二八事件（１９４７）の悲劇
 
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