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The Yūshūkan (遊就館, lit. 'Place to commune with noble souls') is a Japanese military and war museum located within Yasukuni Shrine in Chiyoda, Tokyo.
Chronicling the horror and hope of one of the most cataclysmic events of modern times. Arguably the most significant event in modern history, the atomic bombing of Hiroshimaand Nagasakiwere devastating, though postwar Japan was able to recover and become the nation we know today.
The Yamato, with its massive 46 cm Type 94 main guns and a displacement exceeding 70,000 tons, symbolizes the zenith of Japanese naval engineering and ambition during the war. In Tokyo, the War Museum, established in 1882, claims the title of Japan’s oldest military museum.
Postwar Japan is the period in Japanese history beginning with the surrender of Japan to the Allies of World War II on 2 September 1945, and lasting at least until the end of the Shōwa era in 1989.
2 sty 2014 · I went into the Yuushuukan, the war museum, and was horrified at some of the things I saw. There were displays mapping out Japan's foreign military campaigns, but no mention of the hundreds of...
An informative yet sobering look at the impacts of the dropping of the "Fat Man" atomic bomb on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, this museum is one of the region’s top tourist attractions and is fundamental to understanding the city’s post-war fabric.
4 gru 2012 · The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, designed by Japanese architect Kenzō Tange, is an eloquent visual account of the vexed nature of postwar Japan's contested history. It played an important role in the contentious debates over postwar internationalism and an emerging Japanese nationalism among Japanese architects and critics, and catalyzed the ...
