Yasukuni-Jinjya

japan

3 panoramas by toshio fuji

The Yasukuni-Jinjya is a temple of Shinto, holding memorial services to all soldiers who died in wars. The dead soldiers can not war again, and they need a place to sleep

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Manzanar

usa

1 panorama by landis bennett

In February 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 establishing “Military Areas” and authorizing the Secretary of War to “remove from those areas anyone who might threaten the war effort.” Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten camps where Japanese-Americans were interned during World War II.

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Tokyo I

japan

2 panoramas by keiji yokotani

This building was a substation for the Tachikawa factory of Hitachi Aircraft Company, a munitions plant that manufactured airplane engines. It was constructed in 1938. On the outside wall remain innumerable holes as a remnant of strafings and bombings during World War II.

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Tokyo II

japan

1 panorama by keiji yokotani

These items in the picture below are from a war exhibition in Inagi-City Local Museum, Tokyo. Seven items are chosen here and given detailed explanation.

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Tokyo III

japan

1 panorama by keiji yokotani

Built in 1934, this place was an auditorium of now-defunct Military Cadet School. The U.S.forces requisitioned the facility in August 1945, and used the auditorium as a court when they held the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (the Tokyo Trial) in May of the following year.

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