Japanese Fleet Ordered Home after Revolt: A recent photograph of part of the Japanese fleet shown during maneuvers. The flag of the country flies proudly in the foreground. Two Japanese fleets have been ordered from the high seas to police duty at the great cities of Tokyo and Osaka as the result of the army uprising yesterday, February 25th. Premier Keisuke Okada, Admiral Shishaku Saitō Makoto and General Jotaro Watanabe were assassinated. Insurgent officers said their purpose in the revolt was to protect national policy, Tokyo, Japan, February 26, 1936.

Sheet: 6 7/16 x 8 1/2

Wire photographs were originally transmitted over phonelines, then later, by satellite. They were first used in the early 1920s. Associated Press became a leader with this. After pigment touch-ups, etc., the print is put into a drum (like a drum scanner). The image gets converted into audio tones that are transmitted. The tones are received and beamed onto photo-sensitive paper. Wire photographs are copies without originals---they are hybrid, transmitted objects. (Britt Salvesen, Curator and Department Head, Photography Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 30-31, 2022)

This object has the following keywords:

• Assassinations
• February 26 Incident
• Flags
• Hate
• Hate crimes
• Imperial Japanese Navy
• Jotaro Watanabe
• Keisuke Okada
• Osaka
• Pacific Theater
• Shishaku Saito Makoto
• Tokyo
• Training maneuvers
• Warships
• World War II

• Image Dimensions: 5 15/16 x 8 in. (15.08 x 20.32 cm)

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