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[Shinpachi]

Sugamo Prison.

Visitation room(right) and application form(left)

2nd floor of building No.2 of block No.3

1st floor of building No.2 of block No.3

Source: Prison of the Century - Sugamo Prison : Photo Collection (1982)

 

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[Shinpachi]

Sugamo Prison.

Bath room.
Some class A and B prisoners like former Admiral Nagano were abused by the allied jailers being ordered to soak in the cold water in the winter(left). Some prisoners attempted suicide by falling head-first from the screen(right)

Community cell. Some prisoners attempted suicide by glass fragment of the toilet(left)

Rice cookers(left) and bath tub for class B and C.

Source: Prison of the Century - Sugamo Prison : Photo Collection (1982)

 

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[Shinpachi]

Sugamo Prison from other sources. Final.

Notices in the prison(left) and released prisoners(right)

Released prisoners(left) and Sugamo Prison on the final day of May 30, 1958(right)

Source: Sugamo Prison Photographic Record Collection (1983)

Execution building's door numbered 13.

Source: 巣鴨プリズン１３号扉が現存 刑場入り口、象徴的な存在

 

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[Shinpachi]

So the supreme commander survived as his men wished.
Hirohito in the U.S.

Source: Hirohito in the U.S. Photo Album (1975)

 

[manta22]

So the supreme commander survived as his men wished.
Hirohito in the U.S.

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Source: Hirohito in the U.S. Photo Album (1975)

I think it was the wisdom of General MacArthur that allowed Hirohito to remain as Emperor. A good decision in retrospect.

 

[Shinpachi]

I think it was the wisdom of General MacArthur that allowed Hirohito to remain as Emperor. A good decision in retrospect.

Yes, it was. Japanese people are still grateful for his wise decision.

 

[Shinpachi]

Japanese pacifists and Yokohama City stop tanks for Vietnam on August 5, 1972.

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[Shinpachi]

I have got rather mixed up but, soon after the Korean War broke out, Japan Police Reserve Corps(JPRC, later JSDF) was established by order of GHQ on August 10, 1950. People who seeked for job rushed to recruitment for the limit 75,000 plus 8,000 for the coast guard.

Source: Pictorial Modern History: Postwar World and Japan (1955)

 

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In compliance with the pacifist Constitution, a JPRC tank was called Tokusya(特車 = Special vehicle).

Source: Asahi Press Photos Collection (1954)

 

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[manta22]

I have got rather mixed up but, soon after the Korean War broke out, Japan Police Reserve Corps(JPRC, later JSDF) was established by order of GHQ on August 10, 1950. People who seeked for job rushed to recruitment for the limit 75,000 plus 8,000 for the coast guard.

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Source: Pictorial Modern History: Postwar World and Japan (1955)

By 1950 Japan's recovery had begun but there was still widespread poverty and lack of opportunity. Opening an avenue to good jobs would certainly be greeted by many applying for those jobs.

 

[Shinpachi]

Yes, a war destroyed Japan and another war saved Japan.

 

[N4521U]

Yes, and I worked with the kindest Japanese lady B4 I moved to Oz. She was shipped off to Japan in 1939 at around 10 years of age, as was custom in those days to learn from her elders "the old ways". Needless to say she didn't return to California until 1947, now a teenager with little education. The rest of her family in the USofA were sent off to Internment losing Everything. She did not like being around her family as all they could talk about was getting little or Nothing for being interred, only food and shelter! She lived in abject poverty during the war years. Begging fishermen for scraps to feed her aging grandparents while learning "the old ways". Does anyone benefit by war? Some will say yes, but at who's expense?

 

[Shinpachi]

In compliance with the pacifist Constitution, JMSDF aircraft carrier is called Goeikan(護衛艦 = Escort ship).

DDH-184 Kaga

Source: 海上自衛隊のヘリコプター搭載護衛艦「かが」乗艦レポート

 

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[Shinpachi]

Finally, in compliance with the pacifist Constitution and NPT, plutonium Japan holds is called Saishori-kakunenryou(再処理核燃料 = Re-processed nuclear fuel for MOX). Total volume is said 46 ton and this exceeds China's for warheads. Stored 10 ton in Japan, 21 ton in UK and 15 ton in France separately for MOX processing.


MOX

Source: 日本のプルトニウム警戒 イラン「前例ない貯蔵量」（共同通信） - Yahoo!ニュース