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E-book Friendship Across the Seas : The US Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

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While these displays are all fascinating in their own ways, they do not cover much beyond the defeat of Japan in 1945; no objects related to the JMSDF are on display. “I do think we should display items related to the JMSDF,” said Captain Furush? as he showed us around. “But regrettably, we currently only have displays related to the Imperial Japanese Navy.” There seem to be a few reasons why the Museum of Naval History currently has no displays on the postwar JMSDF. First, the defeat of Japan in World War II marked the end of the IJN tradition. The IJN, which the modern state of Japan established during the Meiji era and for which it allocated a huge sum of its national budget, ceased to exist in 1945. Although the JMSDF inherited IJN traditions in various forms, these two organizations are not the same. The Museum of Naval History commemorates the Imperial Japanese Navy above all else. Second, the JMSDF is not recognized as a true navy even to this day. The highly capable JMSDF, with its sophisticated weaponry and equipment, in combination with its well-trained officers and sailors, ranks as one of the world’s leading navies. Legally, however, it is not a navy. The text of Japan’s postwar Constitution explicitly prohibits Japan from maintaining “land, sea and air forces as well as other war potential.”10 The JMSDF therefore cannot officially be called a navy. Such is its fate. Under these circumstances, the achievements of the JMSDF may not be suitable for display at the Etajima Museum of Naval History, which is a pantheon of the IJN. Incidentally, since my visit to the museum, the facilities at other locations where the JMSDF’s history is on display have been expanded and improved gradually. Different exhibitions can be found on each base. For example, items related to vessels are in Sasebo, Nagasaki; naval aviation materials are in Kanoya, Kagoshima; and those related to minesweepers and submarine forces are in Kure, Hiroshima. These displays center around the postwar JMSDF, and are mostly unrelated to the IJN.

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No. Panggil

940.53 AGA f

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Singapore : Springer Nature., 2023

Deskripsi Fisik

277 hlm

Bahasa

English

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9789819929979

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940.53

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computer

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online resource

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World War II, 1939 - 1945

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