The Kamikaze suicide attacks of World War 2 are without a doubt the most famous manifestation of Japanese fanatism. But hardly anybody knows that the Japanese military generally had a thing for self-destructing soldiers – they blew up their own people not only in airplanes, but in mini-submarines, speed boats and as divers with mines [...]
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Katashima Training School
Posted in Abandoned, Asia, Japan, Kyushu, Military, Nagasaki, School, Video, Visited in 2010 on 2010/04/21 | 6 Comments »
Shime Coal Mine
Posted in Abandoned, Asia, Fukuoka, Japan, Kyushu, Mine, Video, Visited in 2010, Zombies on 2010/04/11 | 5 Comments »
The first haikyo stop on my recent Kyushu trip is one of the internet favorites: The Vertical Shaft of the Shime Coal Mine. Easy to spot from long distances this 47.65 meters high tower was finished in 1943 as the center of a coal mine that opened in 1889 and closed in 1964. But that’s [...]
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