Britain was Japan's bestie at the turn of the 20th century, and we kind of sort of told them that it would be in their best interests to be our bestie instead. That pissed Japan off quite a bit, so they had quite a bit of reason to hate us.
There were British coastal guns (remains of) still on some of the beaches in Japan even into the 90s. There's a picture of one in a book called "War of our Fathers: Relics of the Pacific Battlefields," a great picture book that uses infrared film photography to present a somewhat somber image of the stuff that was left behind after the war.
Britain was Japan's bestie at the turn of the 20th century, and we kind of sort of told them that it would be in their best interests to be our bestie instead. That pissed Japan off quite a bit, so they had quite a bit of reason to hate us.
The United States opened up Japan to the west in 1851.....
Yes.
That book looks really cool.
I recently watched a documentary about Fort Drum in the Philippines. Very interesting stuff.
It's a pretty nice book. Not a whole lot of meat to it, just a lot of pictures. The photography method, infrared film, gives everything a soft, surreal look.
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