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American photographer recounts childhood in wartime Karuizawa
"My mother found watercress by the stream near our house, and used it in many ways — in soup, sauteed, or raw as a salad. During the war, Japanese didn't eat watercress — it was more European. It became an important food source for us."

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Legation of Swiss was evacuated to Karuizawa in May 1944.
To end the war, Japanese government set up a branch office of Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Karuizawa in March 1945.
All negotiation with the Allies was made through this Swiss legation in Karuizawa.

Japanese staff of Karuizawa office in front of the Legation of Swiss in 1945.
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Searched but no more Karuizawa photos.

Yoshio Nishina (1890-1951)
Physicist who is the inventor of Klein-Nishina's formula.
From 1940 to 1945, he was engaged in developing the atomic bomb as a project leader in RIKEN (理研 = Institute of Physical and Chemical Research of Japan). He did not think that even Americans, or Germans, would be able to develop it within 6 years because of difficulties of the uranium-235's separation from 238.

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In the late 1944, IJA obtained US bombing plan from a crashed B-29. Riken in Tokyo was one of the targets.
Riken immediately asked Osaka Imperial University and Sumitomo Steel Pipes in Kansai area (Western Japan) to build the U-235 separation towers beside the ones (5) in Tokyo. There were 5 in Sumitomo and 3 in Osaka Imperial University by the end of war. The Allies did not know them as abandoned into the rivers during 15-20 August 1945.

Old site of the Department of Science of Osaka Imperial University.
Here could be 3 rusted steel towers (5 meters long) under this bridge.
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On June 26, 1944 , a six-man patrol of Thieves left camp on a reconnaissance mission deep into Japanese held territory, Saipan's capital city of Garapan. On the way into Garapan one of the Thieves, 19-year old PFC Marvin Strombo, acquired a Yosegaki Hinomaru, or "Good Luck Flag," from a Japanese Captain who had died days earlier.
Data source: The Last Mission organized by Joseph Tachovsky

Strombo, kneeling with his flag
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The flag he acquired
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He (center) is now in Japan to hand the flag to the dead soldier's brother directly tomorrow.
A good story :salute:
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