Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (2 Viewers)

[manta22]

Celebrities of Kurume City, Fukuoka, receive English conversation lecture by USMC at the public hall on October 26, 1945.

Papa-san, hubba-hubba!
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Source: Fukuoka Postwar Photo Collection (1983)

I think the Japanese found English a difficult language to master.

 

[Shinpachi]

According to my high-school English teacher who served as an interpreter at US Army in the postwar, pronunciation was hard to catch, even for him, like "OK Mr. Sasaki you garra job."

 

[MiTasol]

I think the Japanese found English a difficult language to master.

Even a lot of English speakers find English a difficult language, especially the written form.

 

[Shinpachi]

Let's understand American humor! - Japanese brave attempt in 1946.

Source: AMERICAN HUMOR by Naotaro Tatsunokuchi(1946)

 

[Shinpachi]

A GHQ staff gives advice to local officials about the coal production in Fukuoka on December 8, 1949.

Source: Fukuoka Postwar Photo Collection (1983)

 

[CN AK12]

Like Abraham Lincoln said after the battle of Midway, in 1812; "Don't believe everything you read on the internet".

这就是你日本人在我的国家南京干的事情，我不恨日本人但是

Captured Japanese soldiers in Manchukuo 1945.
Not a few guys look Koreans and Chinese. I only wonder.

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[Shinpachi]

这就是你日本人在我的国家南京干的事情，我不恨日本人但是

This is what the world understood about the incident in Nanking at the time.
Much different from the modern education in the continent(s).

"Horrors beyond human imagination took place in Nanking between Dec. 10 and 18, 1937. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, despite expert advices, had left some of his best troops to make a last stand inside the city. When the walls were breached, Chinese soldiers stripped to their underclothes and ran around looking for civilian clothes to disguise themselves. Japanese shot down everyone seen running or caught in a dark alley. Soldiers and civilians were tied in groups of 50 and executed in cold blood!"

「1937年12月10日至18日期间，南京发生了超出人类想象的恐怖事件。蒋介石不顾专家的建议，留下了一些最精锐的部队在城内进行最后的抵抗。 当城墙被攻破时，中国士兵脱光了内衣，四处寻找便服来伪装自己。 日本人射杀了所有在黑暗小巷里奔跑或被困的人。 士兵和平民50人一组，被残酷处决！」

Source: LIFE dated May 9, 1938

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

Old Japanese seem to try to learn everything about the US. Awesome...

Source: AMERICAN HUMOR by Naotaro Tatsunokuchi(1946)

 

[Zippythehog]

These are actually pretty good.

 

[Shinpachi]

Source: AMERICAN HUMOR by Naotaro Tatsunokuchi(1946)

 

[Frog]

 

[Shinpachi]

 

[Shinpachi]

Humors a little difficult for me to understand well.
Thanks for reading, everyone!

Source: AMERICAN HUMOR by Naotaro Tatsunokuchi(1946)

 

[MiTasol]

Ah. The law of unintended consequences strikes again.

 

[Shinpachi]

They were there and we are here not knowing them.
Japanese physicians with members of ABCC (Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission).

At the Kyushu University on February 6, 1947.

At an agricultural school in Kyushu on May 2, 1947.

Source: Fukuoka Postwar Photo Collection (1983)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

Source: Fukuoka Postwar Photo Collection (1983)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

Japanese scientists with SCAP (Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers) members at the Kyushu University on August 7, 1947.

Source: Fukuoka Postwar Photo Collection (1983)