The Naval Institute Press will publish the much sought after six volumes of the Kure Maritime Museum's The Japanese Naval Warship Photo Album series. Originally published in Japan in 2005, each album contains photographs officially taken by the Kure Maritime Museum, as well as those taken by private individuals. These pictorial records document the main types of Japanese vessels, from battleships to submarines, based on the best images from Shizuo Fukui, a former Imperial Japanese Navy commander and technician. These photos include the ones Fukui began collecting as a young boy and continued after he worked as a naval shipbuilder, and those that he was given in order to complete a photographic history of the Imperial Japanese Navy's ships, which include those gathered by Nagamura Kiyoshi, a shipbuilder, who among naval engineers especially loved ships and proactively collected photos and the collection of machinist Amari Yoshiyuki. Moreover, with the help of shipbuilder Makino Shigeru among others, Fukui was able to continue to gather photographs and other items throughout the postwar period. It is not an exaggeration, therefore, to say that Fukui dedicated his entire life to this work. These images are especially valuable because of the massive destruction of official documents at the end of the war.

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.


Book Information
ISBN 9781682474211
Author Kure Maritime Museum
Format Hardback
Page Count 236
Imprint Naval Institute Press
Publisher Naval Institute Press
Weight(grams) 1157g
Dimensions(mm) 215mm * 299mm * 20mm