Today we visited the Yamato Museum and the Kure Maritime Museum.
The Yamato represented an attempted by Japan to use "quality" to counter the national superiority in "quantity" of the American side. This battleship can be said to have been a crystallization of the state-of-the-art technologies of its time. Those technologies contributed to the recover and high-level growth of postwar Japan, and have been inherited by the industries of the present day.
The following are artifacts found inside one of the sunken ships.
Next are artifacts from Japanese war times. It includes: uniforms, items brought on board ships, figurines to remind sailor of daily life, etc.
At some point we got mixed in with a school tour group...and you thought your school uniform was bad! LOL
January 15, 1921 saw the opening of the Kure Naval Dockyard's Hiro Branch Works, which were to carry out manufacture and repair of aircraft and engines. The Hiro Naval Dockyard was Japan's leading aircraft technology developer until the Naval Aeronautical Arsenal was established in Yokomuka. In particular, it was the main researcher and manufacturer of metal flying-boats, designing and developing the Mark 14 and Mark 90 flying-boats. The Kamikaze missions started October 1944.
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