Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (56 Viewers)

[special ed]

A number of 1934 Packards in the photo.

 

[Shinpachi]

A number of 1934 Packards in the photo.

Oh, I did not notice them. Thanks!
Probably, they were all sent to Manchukuo IMO.

 

[Shinpachi]

Hirohito's Mercedes-Benz in 1934.

Source: Press Rengo Photo News (March 1934)

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」

 

[Shinpachi]

A French female flyer Marie-Antoinette Hilsz(1903-1946) at the Haneda airfield in Tokyo in 1933 or 1934 as she flew twice between Paris and Tokyo.

Source: Press Rengo Photo News (March 1934)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

Yosuke Matsuoka(1880-1946), the key player of Japan's withdrawal from the League of Nations in 1933, speaks his thoughts to Fox in 1934.

Source: Press Rengo Photo News (April 1934)

Matsuoka barks to Fox.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEYk85GGMyk

 

[Shinpachi]

Novelist Yukio Mishima(1925-1970).
Way to the muscle nationalist.

Gym debut in 1957

Source: Asahi Press Photo Collection (1957)

Just before his death in 1970

Source: internet

 

[Wurger]

 

[Frog]

 

[JOVE23]

"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

 

[Shinpachi]

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

Thanks for the information, JOVE23

 

[Shinpachi]

I remember this guy on TV well

Source: Asahi Press Photo Collection (1956)

 

[SaparotRob]

"Good evening ".

 

[Shinpachi]

I had known this guy's name from a Japanese comedian Tani Kei circa 1960.

Source: Asahi Press Photo Collection (1955)

 

[Shinpachi]

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.

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

Under construction in 1934

Source: Press Rengo Photo News (Feb.1934)

Not perfectly forgotten

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）

 

[Shinpachi]

Forgotten Heroes.

Statue of IJN Commander Takeo Hirose and Petty Officer Magoshichi Sugino in 1934.
Hirose tried to rescue Sugino during the Russo-Japanese War but failed and both died.

Source: Press Rengo Photo News (March 1934)

Removed in 1947

Source: 広瀬武夫④

 

[Shinpachi]

A picture from UK in May, 1937.

Source: Press Rengo Photo News (May 1937)

 

[SaparotRob]

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.

 

[manta22]

I might not agree with the politics but that took guts.

The "bomb" they are carrying looks like what we called a Bangalore Torpedo.

 

[SaparotRob]

I learned about the Bangalore torpedo from DC comics, Our Army At War (?). The issue was about Sargent Rock encountering his identical twin at Omaha Beach in a blasted bunker. He was a Greman!