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Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts
Thursday, November 5, 2015

The Yellow Perils - Yokohama F.C. (1909)

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'The idea of Japs playing football ----in the English Cup too- struck them as being intensely amusing …' So wrote the sports writ...
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Friday, February 20, 2015

Japanese Rupees in Burma 1944

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Fell out of a book - this curious souvenir of what is now known as  The Burma Campaign  - which raged from 1941 to 1945 with the Japanes...
Sunday, September 14, 2014

Angus Wilson and Evelyn Waugh - the tweed connection

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Found - this enigmatic pair of pictures in a 1980s Japanese book on English literature. The book was in a box of foreign language books ...
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Thursday, August 29, 2013

James Bond and the origins of the skateboard

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Sent in by an avid jotter just retired at 50 and spending his time in browsing his vast library (mostly acquired in the purlieus of Charing ...
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