Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (14 Viewers)

[manta22]

I did not know that there was such a Japanese song as "Gomen nasai (I am so sorry)" in 1953 but was introduced as a very popular song in the US.
Ten years earlier than "Sukiyaki". Royalty is said having donated to the Elizabeth Saunders Home.

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Source: World Entertainment Pictorial (June 1953)

When we lived in Japan the popular song was "China Night".

 

[Shinpachi]

When we lived in Japan the popular song was "China Night".

Interesting testimony, Neil.

A YouTube video confirms -

It seems that GIs remembered this song on Radio Tokyo during the war. Like "Shi-na-no-yo-y(*r)u, Shi-na-no-yo-y(*r)u-yo", this was sung proudly by GIs stationed in Japan in the postwar.
During the Pacific War, this song was used for overseas propaganda by Radio Tokyo. US soldiers who listened to it called this song "China Night (Shina-no-yoru)" and sang it. After the war ended, they competed for records in Japan.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6z1h82C7ms

 

[manta22]

Interesting testimony, Neil.

A YouTube video confirms -

It seems that GIs remembered this song on Radio Tokyo during the war. Like "Shi-na-no-yo-y(*r)u, Shi-na-no-yo-y(*r)u-yo", this was sung proudly by GIs stationed in Japan in the postwar.
During the Pacific War, this song was used for overseas propaganda by Radio Tokyo. US soldiers who listened to it called this song "China Night (Shina-no-yoru)" and sang it. After the war ended, they competed for records in Japan.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6z1h82C7ms

Yes, that is it- thank you for posting the video.

"US soldiers who listened to it called this song "China Night (Shina-no-yoru)" and sang it." True, but GIs, being an irreverent bunch of wise guys, called it "She Ain't Got No Yo-Yo".

 

[Frog]

US Army picture.

The young toddler girl named Liliane Aimard, born Marion deceased yesterday aged 79.
This picture illustrating her return with her mother and father to her Normandy home on july 44 gained fame in US magazines.

 

[Shinpachi]

Front photos in China taken by soldiers and introduced to the Japanese people in 1940.

French soldiers in the French Concession of Shanghai.

A mascot sent from homeland and a soldier in the flower field.

"I am a soldier writer Cpl. Ashihei Hino."

Source: Front photos in China taken by soldiers (1940)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

It was impossible for an IJA soldier to sit on his rifle which was given by the emperor.
This is a shot which my father astonished as a veteran.

Movie actors

Source: Asahi Press News Photo Collection (1954)

 

[Wurger]

 

[ARTESH]

That song in post #3902 is so cool!

 

[Frog]

 

[cammerjeff]

Looks like an earlier version of this event

Source Airship landed on aircraft carrier

 

[SaparotRob]

Two of my favorite things. Is that Los Angeles?

 

[cammerjeff]

Yes the Los Angeles on the USS Saratoga in 1928. I can't imagine they stayed that way for very long!

 

[ARTESH]

"Aircraft Carrier is huge." They said! Haven't they seen "Airship Carrier"?

 

[Frog]

You could take flying lessons with these planes at a cost of $ 500 and a life insurance :

 

[Wurger]

 

[Zippythehog]

This Ford Tri-Motor was borrowed by the EAA for the tour circuit last year, here in Xenia, OH. The airframe was the second airplane to leave CMH for points west (Waynoka, OK) in 1929. The TAT "Coast to Coast in 48 hours" service. At night, passengers rode the train. During the day, they flew in the Tin Goose (Tin Geese).

 

[Shinpachi]

Japanese citizens repatriated from China in 1954 after Mao took power.

This girl brought back even a bucket which was enamel coated and probably expensive.

Source: Asahi Press News Photo Collection (1954)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

Meanwhile -

Source: 朝日新聞報道写真傑作集 1952 【アサヒカメラ臨時増刊】(アサヒカメラ編) / パノラマ書房 / 古本、中古本、古書籍の通販は「日本の古本屋」