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vagabond

Hi All,

I'm fortunate to be working a gig in Tokyo for a few months and have been going museum hopping as much as I can and funds allow. We made the trip to the Yushukan - Tokyo War Museum and had good luck taking photos. I've linked below to the gallery of AFV and Artillery stuff in the museum and there's a full gallery of the museum including a very rare Judy Dive Bomber in my air museum section of the SmugMug site - if you're interested head over to the Air Museum section of the site.

At the museum there are:

Model 96 15 cm Howitzer and Type 89 150mm Heavy Gun both from Okinawa

Type 97 Tank recovered from Saipan.

Many smaller displays.

Enjoy!
VB

www.vgbimages.com/AFV-...y/n-NWrW8K

Pzkpfw-e · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jul 21, 2010 Posts: 1202

Great set of photos.

earlymb · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 30, 2011 Posts: 101

Looks like an interesting museum!

vagabond

Yes, it's fascinating! Very controversial as it puts forth very strongly that Japan was 'forced' into defending itself by the US and has a LOT of very revisionist history. The shrine in which the museum is located is strongly associated with a glorification of the Japanese military.

Putting that aside though, it does have a lot of interesting artifacts.

JeffStringer · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 637

Thanks for taking such detailed images of the Type 97. Always was interested in IJA vehicles and it REALLY must be nice being in Tokyo too!

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