Yamato Ship Museum in Kure

[AssKissinger]

http://apike.ca/japan_kure_yamato.html


http://www.yamato-museum.com/en/

[Tsuru]

Is that you, AK?

[sirwanksalot]

If I had avatar privileges I'd size down this guy.

[Thanatos' embalmed botfly]

Fuckin' rad, Rad teeth, too,. That guy rulews. He looks kie a idiot,.

[AssKissinger]

I brought my dentures because I thought yamato was a new hybrid vegetable but it turned out to be a boat

[cstaylor]

Those 2000+ souls were lost the moment that ship left harbor. Any chance for a naval victory died with Yamamoto.

[dimwit]

The Yamato was a ridiculous anachronism from the time it was built. Some of the more foresighted admirals realized this and recommanded that it be melted for scrap since it was tying up large amounts of manpower while spending most of the war in port.

As for chances of victory, there never were any. Yamamoto like many in the general staff assumed that the American would fold like a cheap suitcase just as the Russians had done 1905. It was complete strategic ineptitude. He thought that Japan could win a short war, but realized a long war was a lost cause. His planning took no account of the Americans might do. American planners realized that the longer the war lasted the more evitable their victory.

[AssKissinger]

dimwit, if you get a chance go by the museum. I wouldn't make a special trip for it but if you're in town...

I've never seen so many people so proud of something that was a total failure.

[Mulboyne]

Telegraph: Battleship film revives Japan's pride in wartime generation
Sixty years after the colossal battleship Yamato was sunk, the pride of Japan's wartime navy is once again an object of fascination. Almost 400,000 visitors have flocked to see a full-scale replica of the deck of the Yamato in Onomichi, western Japan. The ship was reconstructed for the shooting of a film, Men of the Yamato, which will be released next month...The Yamato offers the Japanese a relatively safe outlet for feelings of pride in - and sympathy for - the war generation. Few express admiration for the wartime leaders or for soldiers who fought in China, for example, where massacres were committed. But the navy's reputation was not sullied by atrocities while its leader, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, opposed the catastrophic war with the United States...more...

[kurohinge1]

Telegraph: Battleship film revives Japan's pride in wartime generation

... But the navy's reputation was not sullied by atrocities while its leader, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, opposed the catastrophic war with the United States...

Censorship has probably succeeded in protecting their reputation but that's not to say that atrocities weren't committed ...

From one Japanese Navy War Crimes site:

... The order to murder survivors of merchant ships extended beyond the submarine service to Japanese surface warships. Following a sortie by the heavy cruisers Aoba, Chikuma and Tone into the Indian Ocean in February 1944 for the purpose of disrupting Allied merchant shipping, seventy-two merchant seamen were taken aboard Tone from MV Behar and murdered by command of Vice Admiral Sakonju. Sakonju was executed as a war criminal in 1947 for this atrocity. Vice-Admiral Sakonju pleaded in vain that the order to murder survivors of merchant ships had come from the highest level of the Imperial Japanese Navy ...