{"id":127,"date":"2008-07-17T16:14:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T07:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seanmisen.com\/?p=127&amp;language=en"},"modified":"2008-07-17T16:14:02","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T07:14:02","slug":"senami-coast-war-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/america\/senami-coast-war-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Senami Coast War Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my translation of a war memorial that I came across near the Senami coastline in Murakami. The original Japanese is posted on the Japanese version of this site, so feel free to add translation advice, especially concerning the second paragraph, which I don&#8217;t completely understand.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On October 3rd 1945, around 10 AM, the shapes of 22 American military landing craft appeared suddenly off this coast, and 700 officers and men from the 11th division of the American Army made landfall at this point.\u00a0 At that time, military supplies such as railcars, tanks and heavy machinery began to be unloaded, which continued into the end of December that year.\u00a0 The unloaded supplies were used to construct roads and the schoolgrounds of Senami Elementary, as well as the plaza of the railway station.\u00a0 During that time, the officers and men stayed at inns (including the old Japan Sea Dojo) and Senami Elementary School.\u00a0 Afterward, the men moved on with the military supplies toward Niigata.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, to the people of Senami, The American Army were met as a sudden bolt out of the blue.\u00a0 However, the fact of such a serious matter was that you can\u2019t even see any memorials to the end of the war.\u00a0 To continually express the wish for eternal peace and to communicate this historical fact for the purpose of future generations, this was posted here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/sekihi.jpg\" alt=\"sekihi.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my translation of a war memorial that I came across near the Senami coastline in Murakami. The original Japanese is posted on the Japanese version of this site, so feel free to add translation advice, especially concerning the second paragraph, which I don&#8217;t completely understand. On October 3rd 1945, around 10 AM, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,15,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-elementary","category-japan","category-murakami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanholland.net\/seanmisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}