Aircraft Carriers and Seaplane Carriers - Selected Photos from the Archives of the Kure Maritime Museum; The Best from the Collection of Shizuo Fukui's Photos of Japanese Warships

About the author

The Kure Maritime Museum is located in Kure City, Hiroshima Province. It is also known as the Yamato Museum. The collection focuses on the people of Kure, culture and industries, primarily shipbuilding and steelmaking. The museum houses over 20,000 Imperial Japanese navy photos. Kazushige Todaka serves as Director of the Kure Maritime Museum. He is the coauthor of several books on the Japanese navy. Robert D. Eldridge is the author of dozens of books in English and Japanese on U.S.-Japanese relations, Okinawa and Japanese politics. He received a Ph.D. in political science from Kobe University. He resides with his family in Japan.

Product details

• Assisted by: Kure Maritime Museum (Editor), Kazushige Todaka (Editor), Robert D Eldridge (Translation)
• Publisher: Naval Institute Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.01.2020
• EAN: 9781682474211
• ISBN: 978-1-68247-421-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 304 mm x 222 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 1166 g
• Illustrations: 200 b-w photos
• Series: The Japanese Naval Warship Photo Albums
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous