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[Shinpachi]

The father of one of the Japanese families that we knew well in Tokyo had been a machine gunner in the IJA during the War. He was home on leave toward the latter part of the conflict and he told his family what he had seen and that the war was lost. Unknown to him, the Secret Police had put a man to investigate him and he had crawled up under the floor of the house and overheard that conversation. The father was arrested and imprisoned until the end of the War.

He was lucky to survive in the prison.

 

[Shinpachi]

IJN battleship Ise at the Yokohama pier on May 6, 1934.

Source: Press Rengo Photo News (May 1934)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

On June 28, 1934, new British Ambassador to Japan, Sir Robert Henry Clive, presents Letter of Credentials and Letter of Dismissal of his predecessor to His Majesty the Emperor.

His successor, Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, was to be detained due to the war on/after December 8, 1941.

Sir Robert Henry Clive and his party at the palace

Source: Press Rengo Photo News (June 1934)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Frog]

NACA Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, Moffett Fields, CA.

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff shinpachi!

 

[Shinpachi]

Thanks Hugh

On July 10, 1934, Japan Students Aviation League launched new 'marine' class to train reserve pilots for the navy at Haneda airfield.

Source: Press Rengo Photo News (July 1934)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Frog]

 

[Snautzer01]

1945 Japanese Traveling Dentist Yokohama WW2

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[Snautzer01]

1945 Japan Emperor Hirohito Reports Defeat to Ancestors

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[Shinpachi]

1945 Japanese Traveling Dentist Yokohama WW2

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Thanks for sharing, Snautzer.
Yes, necessity is the mother of invention

Germany in February, 1944

Source: DOITU (Germany, Feb.1944)
Japan-Germany Publishers Association

 

[Wurger]

 

[manta22]

1945 Japanese Traveling Dentist Yokohama WW2

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A couple of years later it was still quite common to see street vendors with improvised tools plying a trade. In both these photos, the men are wearing part of their old IJA uniforms. Japan was still wretchedly poor and many could not afford clothing or much food. This was a very difficult time for the Japanese people economically and their society was undergoing profound changes as well.

 

[Shinpachi]

A couple of years later it was still quite common to see street vendors with improvised tools plying a trade. In both these photos, the men are wearing part of their old IJA uniforms. Japan was still wretchedly poor and many could not afford clothing or much food. This was a very difficult time for the Japanese people economically and their society was undergoing profound changes as well.
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As they came to my hometown once a month periodically, my mother and grandmother had enough time to prepare.....

 

[Snautzer01]

Thanks for sharing, Snautzer.
Yes, necessity is the mother of invention

Germany in February, 1944
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Source: DOITU (Germany, Feb.1944)
Japan-Germany Publishers Association

It is. Today one can see trades come from shops and into i.g. in trucks. Food is a big one.
One has to survive. They did that pretty well.

 

[Zippythehog]

Interesting, this thread got me thinking about "Pops" Yoshimura. He was training to be an aviator in the IJN before the war. An accident prevented him from being a pilot so, he became an aircraft mechanic.
In the 50s, he started working on motorcycles for a living. Later he was the first name in Superbike. Eddie Lawson's championship Kawasaki was tuned by Pops.
Wes Cooley too.

The man knew machines. There was a story of Yoshimura hand grinding a cam, stopping, rolling it in his palms and grinding it until it was right. The bike was a monster.

 

[Shinpachi]

Interesting, this thread got me thinking about "Pops" Yoshimura. He was training to be an aviator in the IJN before the war. An accident prevented him from being a pilot so, he became an aircraft mechanic.
In the 50s, he started working on motorcycles for a living. Later he was the first name in Superbike. Eddie Lawson's championship Kawasaki was tuned by Pops.
Wes Cooley too.

The man knew machines. There was a story of Yoshimura hand grinding a cam, stopping, rolling it in his palms and grinding it until it was right. The bike was a monster.

Yoshimura-san, forever

吉村秀夫の系譜｜YOSHIMURAの系譜

吉村秀夫についての紹介・解説・考察ページです。

bike-lineage.org

 

[Frog]

NACA Flight Propulsion Research Laboratory, Cleveland OH.