The Christmas Toys, Nishinomiya Japan 1953
music box, kokechi dolls, doll, top, etc.
西宮砲台( 大阪西宮市西波止町西波止)(Japanese old bunker in 1866)
鎖国状態であった江戸時代の終り、開国を迫るアメリカのペリー浦賀来航、ロシア船ディアナ号大阪湾来航などにより、国防に不安を感じた江戸幕府は、京都を警護する要地にあたる大阪湾沿岸に砲台を築いた。砲台の位置は勝海舟が計画し、今津、西宮、和田岬、舞子に築かれた。（今津砲台と舞子砲台は、後に解体された） 西宮砲台の工事は文久３年（１８６３）から慶応２年（１８６６）まで続き、あしかけ４年間も続いた。本体には砲眼１１個と窓１個があって、大砲で四方をねらうことができた。砲台の高さは約１２ｍ、直径約１７ｍ。実際には使われることなく、明治時代を迎えた。
3000 Year Old Tree in Japan 3 of 3
This video is about 3000 Year Old Trees in Japan! Part 3 of 3 Trees we visited in the same day! What a power up! You know the Japanese actually call these trees 'power spots' and you can tell!
All 3 trees we saw are over 3000 years old and are Camphor trees, part of the cinnamon genius. They use the trees sap and bark to make incense, teas, smoke meat and many other things but I'm not sure its something you should ingest...maybe very small doses?
I read that this tree is in the celestial sign of Mars, can be used in funeral rites and prayers of health. It also grows in most wet and warm places around the world.
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2014 Samoanna(Matt Catingub/マットカティンガブ) Westwinds Jazz Orchestra
兵庫県西宮市のアマチュアビッグバンド、ウエストウインズジャズ オーケストラです。
曲はマットカティンガブビッグバンドの「サモアナ」です。
ソロは鍵盤ハーモニカ/原田拓子、アルトサックス/武藤浩司、ピアノ/山垣健。
We are amateur jazz bands called the Westwinds Jazz Orchestra,active now in
Japanese Nishinomiya-city & Kobe-city.
The performance music isSamoana(by Matt Catingub). Thanking you in
advance.
2014年1月18日（土）に行われた「The 31st Westwinds Jazz Orchestra Regular
Concert」より
Taiko drummers
Students at San Francisco's Academy of Arts and Sciences High School perform on Taiko drums at the annual Back to School luncheon benefiting the San Francisco Education Fund - Oct. 14, 2009. This wasn't the best of their performance - after my battery ran low they did an even more amazing piece - but it gives you a taste. Well done!
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:30 1 Background
00:03:39 1.1 Pacific War
00:07:34 1.2 Preparations to invade Japan
00:12:07 1.3 Air raids on Japan
00:18:24 1.4 Atomic bomb development
00:20:42 2 Preparations
00:20:52 2.1 Organization and training
00:24:26 2.2 Choice of targets
00:29:22 2.3 Proposed demonstration
00:32:52 2.4 Leaflets
00:35:38 2.5 Consultation with Britain and Canada
00:38:34 2.6 Potsdam Declaration
00:40:48 2.7 Bombs
00:43:02 3 Hiroshima
00:43:11 3.1 Hiroshima during World War II
00:46:46 3.2 Bombing of Hiroshima
00:51:32 3.3 Events on the ground
00:57:39 3.4 Japanese realization of the bombing
00:59:47 4 Events of August 7–9
01:03:33 5 Nagasaki
01:03:42 5.1 Nagasaki during World War II
01:06:27 5.2 Bombing of Nagasaki
01:16:15 5.3 Events on the ground
01:20:05 6 Plans for more atomic attacks on Japan
01:22:07 7 Surrender of Japan and subsequent occupation
01:26:10 8 Reportage
01:32:19 9 Post-attack casualties
01:35:04 9.1 Cancer increases
01:36:54 9.2 Birth defect investigations
01:39:42 9.3 Investigations into brain development
01:44:24 10 iHibakusha/i
01:47:01 10.1 Double survivors
01:48:22 10.2 Korean survivors
01:49:11 11 Memorials
01:51:37 12 Debate over bombings
01:53:24 13 Legacy
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During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively, with the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement. The two bombings killed 129,000–226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in the history of armed conflict.
In the final year of the war, the Allies prepared for what was anticipated to be a very costly invasion of the Japanese mainland. This undertaking was preceded by a conventional and firebombing campaign that devastated 67 Japanese cities. The war in Europe had concluded when Germany signed its instrument of surrender on May 8, 1945. As the Allies turned their full attention to the Pacific theater, Japan faced the same fate. The Allies called for the unconditional surrender of the Imperial Japanese armed forces in the Potsdam Declaration on July 26, 1945—the alternative being prompt and utter destruction. Japan ignored the ultimatum and the war continued.
By August 1945, the Allies' Manhattan Project had produced two types of atomic bombs, and the 509th Composite Group of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) was equipped with the specialized Silverplate version of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress that could deliver them from Tinian in the Mariana Islands. Orders for atomic bombs to be used on four Japanese cities were issued on July 25. On August 6, one of the modified B-29s dropped a uranium gun-type (Little Boy) bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, on August 9, a plutonium implosion (Fat Man) bomb was dropped by another B-29 on Nagasaki. The bombs immediately devastated their targets. Over the next two to four months, the acute effects of the atomic bombings killed 90,000–146,000 people in Hiroshima and 39,000–80,000 people in Nagasaki; roughly half of the deaths in each city occurred on the first day. Large numbers of people continued to die from the effects of burns, radiation sickness, and other injuries, compounded by illness and malnutrition, for many months afterward. In both cities, most of the dead were civilians, although Hiroshima had a sizable military garrison.
On August 15—six days after the bombing of Nagasaki and the Soviet Union's declaration of war—Japan announced its surrender to the Allies. On September 2 in Tokyo Bay, the Japanese government signed the instrument of surrender, which effectively ended World War II. The effects of ...