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You have done excellent research- thank you so much for following up on these pictures, Shinpachi.Makita Co. (牧田商店) then and now.
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I may be wrong but this is Makita Co Ltd in Tokyo now as I found no other Makita's.
I have enjoyed your photo album very much, manta.
Thank you very much
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Yes, they are high-school students during a graduation trip at Tohno, Iwate Prefecture hanging many expensive cameras circa 1955. Costume in the back of #1 and #2 pics is of the Deer Dance.
Shinpachi, here is a cell phone picture of the Japanese-made aluminum trunk we bought in the Tokyo PX. It is marked "AIKOKU" which is probably the manufacturer or seller's name; perhaps you know something about this company? As you can see, it is constructed of aircraft materials using aircraft techniques. The aluminum Has accumulated a little corrosion over the past 74 years so the aluminum alloy is not "Alclad" but probably some high strength alloy was used for the flat panels and a more easily formed alloy for the formed pieces.Shinpachi, Thank you for the information on the camera. Here is a photo that was taken with it in 1949.
At the end of the war there were remaining stocks of raw material such as sheet aluminum so it was used to build items for sale so that income could be generated for their workers. I will take a photo of that trunk and post it.
Shinpachi, here is a cell phone picture of the Japanese-made aluminum trunk we bought in the Tokyo PX. It is marked "AIKOKU" which is probably the manufacturer or seller's name; perhaps you know something about this company? As you can see, it is constructed of aircraft materials using aircraft techniques. The aluminum Has accumulated a little corrosion over the past 74 years so the aluminum alloy is not "Alclad" but probably some high strength alloy was used for the flat panels and a more easily formed alloy for the formed pieces.
We had to break one hasp when we lost the key. I may be wrong about the Mitsubishi connection.
"CPO" = Central Purchasing Office, "GHQ" = General Headquarters, "FEC" = Far East Command.
Thank you so much, Shinpachi. You are a wealth of information! So the Mitsubishi connection is true!Thank you very much for sharing so fantastic historical pictures again, manta
Aikoku looks like the Aikoku Industries Co Ltd (愛国工業株式会社) established in 1943 as a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The company is now called "Aikoku Alpha Corporation" as a leading maker of factory equipments for Mitsubishi and others.
My pleasure, manta.Thank you so much, Shinpachi. You are a wealth of information! So the Mitsubishi connection is true!
What photographer Shunkichi Kikuchi(1916-1990) saw in color.
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Source: The Japanese Army Wings of the Second World War (1972)