Wooden dolls honor those who died in the Russo-Japanese War
June 29th, 2009 by James
A short clip showing the interior of Joshoin Temple in Shizuoka Prefecture, where the 223 local men who died in the Russo-Japanese War are memorialized in the form of wooden dolls:
The hand-carved dolls have been created to reflect the branch of service and rank of each man who died. Some of the dolls also appear to be wearing war medals.
More information about the temple and a few more photos can be found here and here (in Japanese).
[The video clip in this post is from NHK's "Japan Debut" documentary series. The documentaries have really angered some right wing groups, but I have found them to be some of the best NHK programs I've ever seen.]
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YES this series is awesome. I felt like they were trying to say Japan messed up big time by losing the British alliance.
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this NHK program was faked.
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There seems to be very little room to have faked this particular episode of the series, unless the British never actually had an alliance with Japan and the Germans actually did provide Japan with radar technology.
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The British had an alliance with Japan before and during the First World War. Japan’s Imperial Navy was modeled on Britain’s Royal Navy and Britain supplied its first iron and steel hulled warships. Japan’s naval officers also studied at Britain’s naval colleges and later used their tactics successfully against the Russians in 1904. The IJN’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in WW2 was copied from the Royal Navy’s successful attack on the Italian fleet anchored at Taranto in 1940 by torpedo carrying Swordfish biplanes.
Japan had a technological alliance with Germany in WW2 and received some flak gun laying radar and aircraft engine technology by submarine. In February 1945, off the coast of Norway, the German U-boat U864 carrying jet aircraft engines to Japan on such a secret mission was torpedoed and sunk by the British submarine HMS Venturer while both vessels were submerged – the only time such an event has occurred in the history of naval warfare.
The Imperial Navy’s and the ’sailor suit’ uniforms worn by Japanese schoolgirls were fashioned on the uniforms of Britain’s Royal Navy.
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