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Post by RJcccc » 07 Feb 2007, 15:48

Peter H wrote:Italians?Germans?

Can someone help?
Germans.In Shanghai.
But I never learned the Japanese. I only can recognize some Kanji and katakana.
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Post by Eugen Pinak » 08 Feb 2007, 16:51

Peter H wrote:Italians?Germans?

Can someone help?
One Luftwaffe Major (?) (second left) and three Wermacht officers. Sorry - no translations, just uniform knowledge :)
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Post by Kim Sung » 08 Feb 2007, 17:00

They are members of the German military delegation which visited the 14th hospital in Shanghai in early 1938.
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Post by Peter H » 09 Feb 2007, 08:30

Thanks gents.
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Post by Peter H » 14 Feb 2007, 10:51

Who is this?

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Post by Peter H » 14 Feb 2007, 10:59

Help on this would be appreciated as well.From 1938.
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Post by RJcccc » 14 Feb 2007, 13:01

Hi,Peter
The man was Teijiro Toyoda (豊田貞次郎), who had just become the minister for foreign affairs.
The woman seemed to be a family member of a prime politician in Wang's government.
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Post by Peter H » 14 Feb 2007, 13:24

Hi RJ

Thanks for that good sir

I think this is the same woman again from another Japanese publication at the time.Whowever she is the Japanese press seemed to have liked her.

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Post by Peter H » 18 Feb 2007, 05:32

Can someone help--what is this monument in China?
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Post by Windward » 18 Feb 2007, 10:58

A war-memorial monument built by Japanese in Dachang, Shanghai, completed on Nov 27 1938, demolished in 1946, now is part of military land. A pavilion was built on the site of monument in 1987.

http://tj.eastday.com/dl/td/html/jz/0107261.htm
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Post by Windward » 18 Feb 2007, 11:00

Peter H wrote:I think this is the same woman again from another Japanese publication at the time.Whowever she is the Japanese press seemed to have liked her.

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I don't think so. That hairstyle and cloth were very popular in Chinese cities in the 1930s.
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Post by RJcccc » 18 Feb 2007, 11:46

Hi,Peter
The tower’s name was 表忠， which means expressing the loyalty. This building was constructed in order to commemorate the dead Japanese servicemen in Shanghai-battle, and was utilized to moralize and propagandize during the wartime.

winward wrote: I don't think so. That hairstyle and cloth were very popular in Chinese cities in the 1930s.
I agree. The caption of the second photo didn’t reveal that she had a relationship with the politics. And according to the captions, the first photo was taken near Nanjing, (I guess with my ignorance in Japanese), yet the second photo was taken in Hankow. Perhaps the similarity of the two girls should be attributed to the same eroticism :D of the journalists :P .

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To supplement:
I may make a mistake in explaining the meaning of the tower's name. The character 表 has several meanings.
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Post by Peter H » 19 Feb 2007, 09:59

Thanks gentlemen.

Does anyone know who these Chinese guys are?
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Post by kutuzov » 20 Feb 2007, 16:19

my translation of pic ch2.jpg.
During the period of Japanese occupation citizens of Xuzhou fled the city for shelter in the suburbs.Yet as the war continued,civilians got injured.The German priest(s) that resided in Xuzhou and their followers ( these Chinese guys in the pic?) together walked to the city to see and console the wounded in hospitals the next day.
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Post by Kim Sung » 20 Feb 2007, 16:24

kutuzov wrote:my translation of pic ch2.jpg.
During the period of Japanese occupation citizens of Xuzhou fled the city for shelter in the suburbs.Yet as the war continued,civilians got injured.The German priest(s) that resided in Xuzhou and their followers ( these Chinese guys in the pic?) together walked to the city to see and console the wounded in hospitals the next day.
Correct, Kutuzov! Your proficiency at Japanese has increased rapidly. :wink:

By the way, why is the Chinese man holding a French flag?
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