As an American. I’m very happy to see Japanese World War 2 warbirds, military vehicles, and others being restored. Japan needs to learn & respect about their history.
I don’t read or speak Japanese but that collection looks great. I know only a handful of the IJN and IJA aircraft by name and model number. I know them better by the USN and US Army designations (dad was a gunners mate USN1943-48) I had dads field and training circulars on aircraft designations for decades.
Thank you for your comment. Japanese planes also have numerical model names, but many fighter planes are better known by names related to birds and the sky. For example, Hayabusa, which means a bird, and Gekko, which means moonlight. The plane introduced in this video is called Saiun. This name comes from the phenomenon in which parts of the clouds appear rainbow-colored.
In Japanese, a reproduction is an inauthentic reproduction. This plane is a real aircraft that was salvaged from the Truk Islands in the Pacific. It doesn't have wings yet. The engine is also real, called Homare and made by Nakajima Aircraft Company in Japan.
Thank you from Linz, Austria. I went to Innsbruck 30 years ago for work on auto parts. Austria has a beautiful landscape with a series of high mountains. Japanese fighter planes are popular all over the world, so I'm thinking of explaining it in an English title if possible.
@@miyazin-shoten 😎👍 I have been this month in northern Germany on the island of „USEDOM at hangar 10.“ Very interesting collection there and alle airplanes are flyable.
For many years after the WW2, there were a collection of Japanese warplanes that had been captured by Allied forces at NAS Willow Grove in eastern Pennsylvania. The base is gone now. The aircraft were donated to the National Air and Space Museum with some of the airframes at Udvar-Hazy Museum near Dulles International Airport, the main NASM on the Mall, and the NASM Restoration Facility at Silver Hill in Maryland. William Green put together a great series of books through Doubleday Publishing which highlighted Japanese fighters and bombers from WW2. The photographs of the aircraft were taken at NAS Willow Grove. Thank you for presentation.