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The mission of Pacific History Guide is to connect military members, civilians, and their families with the history behind their duty stations, TAD locations, and ports of call throughout the Pacific, where they are. New blog posts every Saturday! Our inbox is always open. #PacificHistoryGuide
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JS Maya (DDG-179) #japan #yokosuka #love #jmsdf #jsdf #jsmaya #maya #ddg... youtube.com/shorts/d5tgb... via @YouTube
JS Maya (DDG-179) #japan #yokosuka #love #jmsdf #jsdf #jsmaya #maya #ddg179 #179 #aegis #destroyer
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December 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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I don’t live in Victoria and may never see the inside of this library but petitions and causes like this are a no-brainer. Sign and send!
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The State Library of Victoria is facing massive cuts to its expert librarian workforce - the people who make the library such a great and popular resource for researchers, schoolkids, students and the general public. You can sign this petition against cuts to this analogue treasure.
The State Library of Victoria is facing massive cuts to its expert librarian workforce - the people who make the library such a great and popular resource for researchers, schoolkids, students and the general public. You can sign this petition against cuts to this analogue treasure.
Sign the Petition
Save the State Library of Victoria!
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December 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM
I don’t live in Victoria and may never see the inside of this library but petitions and causes like this are a no-brainer. Sign and send!
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Always a thrill & a joy to find my book on bookshop shelves!
This is one of a few now signed copies in @blackwelloxford found after a stop in their lovely cafe with my middle daughter 🙂
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This is one of a few now signed copies in @blackwelloxford found after a stop in their lovely cafe with my middle daughter 🙂
📘📙📗📕📚😁
November 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Always a thrill & a joy to find my book on bookshop shelves!
This is one of a few now signed copies in @blackwelloxford found after a stop in their lovely cafe with my middle daughter 🙂
📘📙📗📕📚😁
This is one of a few now signed copies in @blackwelloxford found after a stop in their lovely cafe with my middle daughter 🙂
📘📙📗📕📚😁
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[November 30th, 1945] Japanese forces in French Indochina surrender in Saigon, the final official surrender of troops in World War II.
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
[November 30th, 1945] Japanese forces in French Indochina surrender in Saigon, the final official surrender of troops in World War II.
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This is a ture story...
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November 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This is a ture story...
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Momotarou is thought to be an early modern tale.
This is because it does not appear in the medieval collection of stories called Otogi-zoushi, and because it is strongly influenced by the five elements popular in the Edo period.
The metal element is particularly strong.
This is because it does not appear in the medieval collection of stories called Otogi-zoushi, and because it is strongly influenced by the five elements popular in the Edo period.
The metal element is particularly strong.
...beat the oni and returned home with all the plundered treasure, and the Oni King as their prisoner.
🎨1. T. Hasegawa
Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1855
2. 'Momotaro on the way to Onigashima' - Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, ca. 1882.
3. 'Momotaro and his Companions' - Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1855.
#JapaneseArt #ukiyoe
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🎨1. T. Hasegawa
Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1855
2. 'Momotaro on the way to Onigashima' - Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, ca. 1882.
3. 'Momotaro and his Companions' - Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1855.
#JapaneseArt #ukiyoe
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November 29, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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It began its life in Europe but has since become one of Japan's most popular desserts. The story of baumkuchen’s arrival is one of creativity and industry flourishing even during the darkest of times.
Baumkuchen: The German Dessert's Long Japanese History - Unseen Japan
Read the intriguing history of how baumkuchen, the tree trunk-shaped German cake, grew in popularity in Japan.
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November 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
It began its life in Europe but has since become one of Japan's most popular desserts. The story of baumkuchen’s arrival is one of creativity and industry flourishing even during the darkest of times.
On the #PacificHistoryGuide blog: the popular Japanese legend of #Momotaro. A statue of him was recently stolen in San Jose, CA so it feels like the right time to talk about this. Momotaro is everywhere in Japan, from children’s books to war propaganda.
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Momotaro, the Peach Boy of Japan
Greetings PHG fans! One of the things I enjoyed about living in Japan was the abundance of local culture. From the shrines and religious festivals to monuments to legends and folktales, Japan has no s...
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November 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
On the #PacificHistoryGuide blog: the popular Japanese legend of #Momotaro. A statue of him was recently stolen in San Jose, CA so it feels like the right time to talk about this. Momotaro is everywhere in Japan, from children’s books to war propaganda.
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Beyond excited to announce that I've been published for the very first time. I was invited to write an article for @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social and chose the Anglo-Japanese Alliance as a topic. Thanks to some very patient people and the support of my family, my name is in print for the first time.
November 29, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Beyond excited to announce that I've been published for the very first time. I was invited to write an article for @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social and chose the Anglo-Japanese Alliance as a topic. Thanks to some very patient people and the support of my family, my name is in print for the first time.
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Hadn't seen all of these Ansel Adams of the Manzanar Japanese Internment Camp before.
Fascinating collection.
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Fascinating collection.
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Ansel Adams Photos Capture Daily Life Inside Japanese Internment Camps During WWII
These photos that Ansel Adams took at a Japanese internment camp shows how people who had been forcibly displaced coped with their dire situation. These images are a part of history that people origin...
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November 27, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Hadn't seen all of these Ansel Adams of the Manzanar Japanese Internment Camp before.
Fascinating collection.
mymodernmet.com/ansel-adams-...
Fascinating collection.
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#Etorofu, now known as #Iterup, is now part of Russia; the Kuriles changed hands right at the end of the #SecondWorldWar and their ownership has been disputed by #Japan since.
#OTD November 26 1941 the #IJN striking force tasked with the #PearlHarbor Raid departed Etorofu in the Kuriles. Under VADM Chuichi #Nagumo, the fleet was comprised of six carriers, two battleships, two heavy cruisers, a light cruiser, ten destroyers across four divisions, and three oilers. 1/2
November 27, 2025 at 6:37 AM
#Etorofu, now known as #Iterup, is now part of Russia; the Kuriles changed hands right at the end of the #SecondWorldWar and their ownership has been disputed by #Japan since.
What an image. AI could never.
Maestro Roosevelt conducts cacophony across the Asia-Pacific
(From Kokumin Boku, Sept 1943)
(From Kokumin Boku, Sept 1943)
November 27, 2025 at 6:19 AM
What an image. AI could never.
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Sojourner Truth died in Battle Creek, Michigan, on this day in 1883. She went there for the famed Kellogg Sanitorium and kept Dr. Kellogg as her personal physician. She’s buried in Battle Creek and is honored in a downtown park. The thread below goes into more detail on Truth and Dr. Kellogg.
Battle Creek, Mich.: Sojourner Truth — abolitionist, women’s and African-American civil rights activist, champion of temperance — spent her last 27 years in Michigan, and is buried and honored there. But how did she end up the place that became Cereal City? A story thread! 1/
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Sojourner Truth died in Battle Creek, Michigan, on this day in 1883. She went there for the famed Kellogg Sanitorium and kept Dr. Kellogg as her personal physician. She’s buried in Battle Creek and is honored in a downtown park. The thread below goes into more detail on Truth and Dr. Kellogg.
Greetings PHG fans! We've just added some entries to the resources page, including @drachinifel.bsky.social naval archive. If you like #NavalHistory, this is the place to see images and data, as well as some great book recs. Check it out! #PacificHistoryGuide
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Resources | PacificHistoryGuide
Here follows a list, in no particular order, of databases, museums, collections, articles, and other items of interest that we have used in our research.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Greetings PHG fans! We've just added some entries to the resources page, including @drachinifel.bsky.social naval archive. If you like #NavalHistory, this is the place to see images and data, as well as some great book recs. Check it out! #PacificHistoryGuide
www.pacifichistoryguide.com/resources
www.pacifichistoryguide.com/resources
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Sumo wrestler Hitachiyama, c. 1910, a yokozuna [grand champion] from 1903-1914 who did much to popularize sumo into becoming the national sport during the Meiji and Taisho eras.
Sumo wrestler Hitachiyama, c. 1910. | Old Tokyo
"Advocates of Hitachiyama's greatness were not content to leave it at a single assertion. Recurring evaluations of the origins and continuing basis of his fame almost invariably cited three things to ...
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November 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Sumo wrestler Hitachiyama, c. 1910, a yokozuna [grand champion] from 1903-1914 who did much to popularize sumo into becoming the national sport during the Meiji and Taisho eras.
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John Dower cooking on the Enola Gay controversy
November 26, 2025 at 3:22 AM
John Dower cooking on the Enola Gay controversy
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1945. Japan is going to lose the Philippines. But whilst the fighting goes on, amidst rumours of massacres, the fate of thousands of POWs hangs in the balance… achurchill.substack.com/p/the-los-ba...
The Los Baños Raid, 1945
This one came up in passing as I was getting ready for WHWFest this year, and I have had a note to come back to it for Substack for a while.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
1945. Japan is going to lose the Philippines. But whilst the fighting goes on, amidst rumours of massacres, the fate of thousands of POWs hangs in the balance… achurchill.substack.com/p/the-los-ba...
This is one of the most beautiful walks in the city. #PacificHistoryGuide
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 AM
This is one of the most beautiful walks in the city. #PacificHistoryGuide
Wow! Our latest blog post is also the first to hit 100 views! Appreciate the support 🫡
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Four museums and historic sites in Brisbane, QLD, Australia
G'day PHG fans! I was recently going through some old photos on my phone and saw some shots taken during my most recent deployment in 2023. The USS America made port in Brisbane, Australia, as so many...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Wow! Our latest blog post is also the first to hit 100 views! Appreciate the support 🫡
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#OTD in 1943, Iris Watanabe of CA becomes the first Japanese American to join the Women's Army Corps. Watanabe's induction into the WAC was also slated for December 7. She was quoted saying, "I hope to help make the land of my ancestors pay for its unwarranted attack on my country."
🗃 #skystorians
🗃 #skystorians
November 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
#OTD in 1943, Iris Watanabe of CA becomes the first Japanese American to join the Women's Army Corps. Watanabe's induction into the WAC was also slated for December 7. She was quoted saying, "I hope to help make the land of my ancestors pay for its unwarranted attack on my country."
🗃 #skystorians
🗃 #skystorians
G’day PHG fans! Today’s blog post takes us down to #Brisbane #Australia, where we’re looking at four museums and historic sites in the city. Let me know what you think in the comments! #PacificHistoryGuide
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Four museums and historic sites in Brisbane, QLD, Australia
G'day PHG fans! I was recently going through some old photos on my phone and saw some shots taken during my most recent deployment in 2023. The USS America made port in Brisbane, Australia, as so many...
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November 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
G’day PHG fans! Today’s blog post takes us down to #Brisbane #Australia, where we’re looking at four museums and historic sites in the city. Let me know what you think in the comments! #PacificHistoryGuide
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November 22, 2025 at 6:52 AM
A proud ship that deserved a better end. Kongo should be a museum today. I’d have a page dedicated just for her. #PacificHistoryGuide
#OTD Nov. 21 in 1944, the #ImperialJapaneseNavy battleship Kongo was torpedoed and sunk in the Formosa Strait by #USSSealion. #Kongo had a long and storied service history; the last #IJN capital ship built outside of Japan, she had entered service in 1913. #NavalHistory
November 22, 2025 at 6:37 AM
A proud ship that deserved a better end. Kongo should be a museum today. I’d have a page dedicated just for her. #PacificHistoryGuide
The place where Mori Motonari landed on Miyajima has a marker on the northeast side of the island. #PacificHistoryGuide has it listed on its #Hiroshima section as well as the official PHG Google Maps
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November 21, 2025 at 5:29 AM
The place where Mori Motonari landed on Miyajima has a marker on the northeast side of the island. #PacificHistoryGuide has it listed on its #Hiroshima section as well as the official PHG Google Maps
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This historical plaque on the edge of the French Quarter is a JOURNEY.
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 AM
This historical plaque on the edge of the French Quarter is a JOURNEY.