Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous

[Shinpachi]

How long was the flight?

IJA did not clarify data and Kawasaki only confirms the fact as a maker. General aviation records tell that there was a 15 hour non-stop flight between Japan and Taiwan in 1929.

Japanese cluster bomb Kurai(空雷).
I have not heard the Kurai but Mk3 bomb for IJN or Ta-bomb for IJA.

Source: Japanese Air Corps during the War(1969)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

Damaged ki-43-II-ko flown by Sgt. Hazawa in the Chinese front circa 1943.
He said the armor plate behind the seat protected him.

Source: Japanese Air Corps during the War(1969)

 

[Wurger]

 

[SaparotRob]

An IJN Hanza-type water reconnaissance plane overturned by the wind blow from the backward circa 1925.

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Source: Japanese Air Corps during the War(1969)

Is that Nagato behind the plane or Mutsu?

 

[Shinpachi]

Is that Nagato behind the plane or Mutsu?

My instant impression was the Mutsu simply because of the mountain background which looked like Kure Port but the wild wind and waves looks like near Yokosuka Port for the Nagato.
No exact idea. Sorry

Mutsu

Nagato

Source: IJN Warships(1924)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

Japanese cluster bomb Kurai(空雷).
I have not heard the Kurai but Mk3 bomb for IJN or Ta-bomb for IJA.

The Kurai was short for Kuchu-gyorai(空中魚雷 = Sky torpedo) as a nickname of the Mk3 bomb.

Source: https://gendai-m.ismcdn.jp/mwimgs/1/c/670m/img_1cd88a9f97c5b186d6b89589080f292b668188.jpg

 

[Shinpachi]

Japan in 1957.

Hakodate City aka town of slopes in Hokkaido.
Even dogs helped to pull.

Sukayu Hot Spring in Aomori Pref.
This is famous for the mixed bathing.

Nikko Tosyo-gu Shrine in Tochigi Pref.

Tachikawa aka town of base in Tokyo.
Street girls, base workers and GIs.

Source: Japan (1957)

 

[JOVE23]

it looks idyllic but it was probably incredibly hard times still

 

[Wurger]

 

[Frog]

 

[Shinpachi]

Karuizawa in Nagano Pref. in 1957.
This town was originally developed as a holy summer resort by the British/Canadian missionaries in the 1880s but, in this book, is said to have been vulgarized as a town of vanity for the Japanese snobs in the postwar.

Source: Japan (1957)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

Japanese adult magazine "Liberal" in 1950.
Certainly looks liberal

Source: Liberal (April 1950)

 

[Shinpachi]

Japanese honeymoon in 1948.

Roppei and Chimako

Source: Liberal (July 1948)

 

[Shinpachi]

Magazine "Liberal".
Seems to have been intended for GIs too.

Front page

Source: Liberal (Sept. 1948)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Frog]

 

[Shinpachi]

Hatonomachi town as one of the legal brothel areas, aka special coffee shop area, in Tokyo in 1950.
This kind of town still exists in my neighborhood as it's too traditional as a culture to eliminate even for the authorities.

Source: Liberal (May 1950)