Submarines and Submarine Depot Ships: Selected Photos from the Archives of the Kure Maritime Museum The Best from the Collection of Shizuo Fukui's Photos of Japanese Warships (The Japanese Naval Warship Photo Albums)
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Submarines and Submarine Depot Ships: Selected Photos from the Archives of the Kure Maritime Museum The Best from the Collection of Shizuo Fukui's Photos of Japanese Warships (The Japanese Naval Warship Photo Albums)

Submarines and Submarine Depot Ships: Selected Photos from the Archives of the Kure Maritime Museum The Best from the Collection of Shizuo Fukui's Photos of Japanese Warships (The Japanese Naval Warship Photo Albums)

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Kazushige Todaka (Contributor)  

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Originally published in Japan in 2005, each album in The Japanese Naval Warship Photo Album Series contains official photographs taken by the Kure Maritime Museum, as well as those taken by private individuals. These pictorial records document the main types of Japanese vessels, from battleships to submarines, based on the best images from Shizuo Fukui, a former Imperial Japanese Navy commander and technician. These photos include the ones Fukui began collecting as a young boy and continued after he worked as a naval shipbuilder, and those that he was given in order to complete a photographic history of the Imperial Japanese Navy's ships, which include those gathered by Nagamura Kiyoshi, a shipbuilder who proactively collected photos, and the collection of machinist Amari Yoshiyuki. Moreover, with the help of shipbuilder Makino Shigeru, among others, Fukui was able to continue to gather photographs and other items throughout the postwar period. It is not an exaggeration, therefore, to say that Fukui dedicated his entire life to this work. These images are especially valuable because of the massive destruction of official documents at the end of the war. 206 black & white photos
The Kure Maritime Museum (also known as the Yamato Museum) is located in Kure City, Hiroshima Province. The collection focuses on the people and culture Kure, as well as its industries, primarily shipbuilding and steelmaking. The museum houses more than twenty thousand Imperial Japanese Navy photos.Kazushige Todaka, the director the Kure Maritime Museum, is the coauthor of several books on the Japanese navy.Robert D. Eldridge is the author of dozens of books in English and Japanese on U.S.-Japanese relations, Okinawa, and Japanese politics. He received a PhD in political science from Kobe University. He resides with his family in Japan.
  • Contributor: Kazushige Todaka
  • Imprint: Naval Institute Press
  • ISBN13: 9781591143376
  • Number of Pages: 240
  • Packaged Dimensions: 302x215x22mm
  • Packaged Weight: 1180
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Naval Institute Press
  • Release Date: 2020-02-28
  • Series: The Japanese Naval Warship Photo Albums
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: The Kure Maritime Museum (also known as the Yamato Museum) is located in Kure City, Hiroshima Province. The collection focuses on the people and culture Kure, as well as its industries, primarily shipbuilding and steelmaking. The museum houses more than twenty thousand Imperial Japanese Navy photos.Kazushige Todaka, the director the Kure Maritime Museum, is the coauthor of several books on the Japanese navy.Robert D. Eldridge is the author of dozens of books in English and Japanese on U.S.-Japanese relations, Okinawa, and Japanese politics. He received a PhD in political science from Kobe University. He resides with his family in Japan.

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