Yasukuni Shrine is a shrine located in Kudankita, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. Since the 4th year of Keio (1868), the movement to memorialize and honor the war dead during the Boshin War and the Meiji Restoration has become active, and the movement to establish Shokonsha, a facility for that purpose, has taken place in various places. Against this background, it originated from the Shokonsha, which was built in 1869 by the Edict of the Emperor Meiji, and enshrines more than 2,466,000 pillars of the spirits of those who have been martyred for the nation. It is closely related to Gokoku Shrines all over the country. It is enshrined on the slope of Kudan-zaka facing east, and enshrines Japanese soldiers and civilian employees as the main deities. Formerly a special government company at Chokusaisha. The precincts are known as a famous place for cherry blossoms, and it is also one of the few shrines with the Otorii facing east. Since it is a stand-alone religious corporation (stand-alone shrine), it does not belong to a comprehensive relationship with the Association of Shinto Shrines. Originally named Tokyo Shokonsha, it was renamed to the current Yasukuni Shrine in 1879 (Meiji 12). Since it is a shōkonsha, there is no parishioner area (the area around our location is the parishioner area of Tsukudo Shrine and Hie Shrine). At the beginning of its construction, a military officer (immediately reorganized into the Ministry of War) was in charge of personnel affairs, and later the Ministry of Interior was in charge of personnel affairs, and the Imperial Japanese Army (Ministry of the Army) and the Navy (Ministry of the Navy) supervised the festival.
In 1946 (Showa 21), it left the control of the Government of Japan and became an independent religious corporation under the Religious Corporation Law by the certification of the Governor of Tokyo. It is a representative facility of State Shinto.
Naritasan is the mountain number of Naritasan Shinshoji Temple, the head temple of the Shingon sect Chiyama school in Narita City, Chiba Prefecture. In addition, as shown below, many of the Shinshoji temples, branch temples, Sueji temples, and Sue churches also have the mountain name “Naritasan”, so they are sometimes called locally.
In Japan, when we say simply “pre-war”, we usually refer to the period before the outbreak of World War II, starting with the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese economy grew by leaps and bounds over a period of about 19 years, from 1954 to 1973, when the domestic postal code system and Euroclear were established in 1968, followed by rapid progress in bringing the bill clearing system online. In 1956, the White Paper on the Economy was published. During the period of rapid economic growth in the 1960s and 1970s, the economy benefited from special demand from the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and the 1970 Osaka World’s Fair. In 1968, the country’s gross national product (GNP) surpassed that of West Germany to become the second largest in the world. Bullet trains and expressways were built. Just before the 1970s, when Japan became a creditor nation, foreigners began to invest more in Japanese stocks. The Nixon Shock of 1971 led to a substantial revaluation of the yen, which corrected the excessive surplus in the balance of payments and contributed to economic stability. In October 1973, the Fourth Middle East War triggered a rise in the price of crude oil, and Japan fell into an oil shock (the First Oil Shock). Thereafter, the economy moved into a period of stable growth (from December 1973 to February 1991, when the bubble economy burst).
About World Vintage Films
I’m doing a Youtube video of footage taken from the 1910s to the 1980s.
The footage is original and was filmed by my family and my friends while they were traveling.
That’s why most of the footage was shot in Japan.
The first step in the editing process is to convert the video from analog to digital. Then I remove the unnecessary parts and add the original music and subtitles. We don’t want to hide the footage, so we don’t have many subtitles.
Black and white footage may be converted to color.
International and domestic travel around the world, before, during and after the war.
We have over 10,000 films that have not yet been released to the public. We will continue to edit and distribute a few more in the future.
There is a lot of valuable footage. Especially rare are old footage from less developed countries. At that time, the equipment for filming was rare. Pre-war footage of Japan is also valuable. Old cars and trains. There is also footage of airplanes shot from the sky. Towns and markets, and people. And people. Famous tourist spots and natural scenery. The fashion sense is also interesting and different from today. Enjoy the scenery in the old style.
Mostly on 8mm, 16mm, 9.5mm, 35mm, etc. Newer types of video, such as VHS, are not covered.
(I translate in multiple languages, so my writing is poor.)
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Alo Japan.