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The pine oil as aviation fuel of octane 89.
About 200,000 kilo-litters (1,253,133 US-barrels ?) "crude" pine oil was saved for the coming homeland battle in Japan. This was also used for the test flight of jet plane Kikka. Stock oil was consumed by the fishing boat diesel engines in the postwar.

National production campaign posters


A scene of distillation


Report: Kikka was flown by pine oil


Source:
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貴重品の「松根油増産」ポスター
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2015-11-14: ブログ 風の松原を歩く
 
"Soyokaze (Gentle breeze)"

The first Japanese movie in the postwar.
Introduced in October 1945.

A story of a girl whose dream came true as a singer.
Criticized as a shit movie by media like Asahi Shinbun but its theme song became popular as "Ringo no uta (Song for Apples)".


A GI sings "Song for Apples".
 
A big misunderstanding about postwar Japan would be like "Japan was modernized or changed or democratized".
In my opinion, Japan simply restarted from the condition of the 1930s in the postwar.
This would be why Asahi Shinbun called it "a shit movie".

"Woman in Tokyo (1939)" for comparison.
 
Could really be due to the reviewers having sh!t for brains?
 
at6 said:
Could really be due to the reviewers having sh!t for brains?
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It was a matter of artistic level because of the historical back ground in 1945.
The movie was originally planned to encourage Japanese people to unite before the war was over.
The allied forces ordered to refrain any militaristic factors from the movie as well as seasoned actors/actresses and producers.
It also failed to be a decent musical film as the actress/singer Michiko Namiki was yet clumsy to be a heroine though she was not necessarily too young.

Only the song remained.
 
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