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Hirohito's Mercedes-Benz in 1934.

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Source: Press Rengo Photo News (March 1934)

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Source: センチュリーが新天皇パレード車に決定!!! 予算はなんと8000万円!! さっそくCGで制作してみた!!! - 自動車情報誌「ベストカー」
 
"Father Flannagan surrounded by Autograph hunters at Hibiya park, Tokyo on May 21, 1947."
Beside this news, I have not heard about him at all.

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Source: Press Photo Yearbook (1949)
Father Flanagan was the creator of "Boys Town" and was asked to visit Japan by Gen. MacArthur to give advice on improving conditions for the youth in the postwar era.

Edward J. Flanagan - Wikipedia
 
Forgotten heroes.

Statue of Three Human Bullet Soldiers.
On Feb. 22, 1932, three IJA privates Inosuke Sakue, Susumu Kitagawa and Takeji Eshita carried out suicide attack on the barbed wire barrier to destroy holding a bomb in Miaoxing Town, Shanghai. To remember them, a statue was built in 1934 but removed after the ww2 was over.

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Source: Uniforms and Equipments of IJA/IJN (1973)

Under construction in 1934
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Source: Press Rengo Photo News (Feb.1934)

Not perfectly forgotten
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Source: 2月22日 肉弾三勇士 - 日刊 おっさんの人生これから大逆転だぜえ!(日本史+史跡)
 
Forgotten heroes.

Statue of Three Human Bullet Soldiers.
On Feb. 22, 1932, three IJA privates Inosuke Sakue, Susumu Kitagawa and Takeji Eshita carried out suicide attack on the barbed wire barrier to destroy holding a bomb in Miaoxing Town, Shanghai. To remember them, a statue was built in 1934 but removed after the ww2 was over.

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Source: Uniforms and Equipments of IJA/IJN (1973)

Under construction in 1934
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Source: Press Rengo Photo News (Feb.1934)

Not perfectly forgotten
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Source: 2月22日 肉弾三勇士 - 日刊 おっさんの人生これから大逆転だぜえ!(日本史+史跡)
I might not agree with the politics but that took guts.
 

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