¡Kaigun(P+D)
¡Shishi Bunroku / Cho
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[Machine Translation] Satsuma people, Tani Masato and Mutaguchi Takao, are the same age and have known each other since childhood. When they entered junior high school under the old system, they both had a strong longing to join the Navy. Masato successfully passed the military academy, and although he was called "Dongame," he steadily grew in strength. Takao, however, was unable to become a soldier and eventually became an apprentice painter. The two seemed to have gone their separate ways, but as if guided by something, they were reunited, and through the good offices of Masato, Takao got a job painting warships. On December 8, 1941, Masato and his crew won the victory at Pearl Harbor, and Takao painted the scene. The model was Major Shoji Yokoyama, who was martyred in the attack on Pearl Harbor. This masterpiece, which was serialized in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper in 1942 during the war and won the 14th Asahi Cultural Award, is a "novel of youth" and includes nine essays not published in book form (wartime essays) and a later story (Gunjin) from "Kaiun".
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