[Albion] The greatest Brighton-Japanese interaction of all time?

[Mellotron]

Pompoko

I don't care what anyone says - still love that place.

Formative memories of my carefree, childfree days.

 

[Eeyore]

Is the correct answer, I was lucky enough to be down in that corner when they went over the line....
Absolutely loved it, I went nuts, it was a personal victory for me, sticking it to all those horrible South African site managers I have come across over the years....

Take that.

I didn't go because I thought it would be too one sided...

Still, South Africa came quite close....

 

[Frutos]

100% the Rugby World Cup.

 

[Dun Lurkin]

I had my first ever sushi in Brighton. Does that count? (Not exactly earth shattering news though).

 

[MattBackHome]

This thread is worthless without @Garry Nelson's Left Foot

 

[jackcgull]

Looking at Brighton-Japanese relations through British and Swedish newspaper archives, not a lot has been going on.

These appears to be the two most important interactions between these worlds:

1. TODAY in 1982 there was a whale catching committe (IWO) meeting in Brighton where Japan said they were going to do everything they could to keep fishing whales. People were protesting outside hotel Metropole. In the end some sort of agreement was reached to stop fishing wales at the end of the 1985/86 season.
2. Two years earlier, in 1980, it seems there was another discussion on the same subject. Japan, Russia, Korea, Chile and Canada all said no to the worldwide ban the UK, US and a few other nation wanted.

And thats it.

If you're as disinterested in whales as I am, this means today - unless someone can find something more powerful - will be a historical day for everyone in Japan and/or Brighton.

hey! I was at that (season defining) protest. There was a huge inflatable whale y’know.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

I had my first ever sushi in Brighton. Does that count? (Not exactly earth shattering news though).

 

[Bry Nylon]

Though suspect both sperm whales and Mitoma would disagree.

I’ve got a huge amount of time for Mitoma. But sperm whales can get in the sea.

 

[Pevenseagull]

The father of one of my friends was a Brightonian who was in an internment camp in Japan at the end of WW2.

He was about 13 years old and fluent in Japanese and translated the surrender message to the others in the camp.

There's a cherry tree in his memory in St Anne's Well Gardens.

 

[marlowe]

 

[marlowe]

 

[marlowe]

 

[Comrade Sam]

I have a proper link between Brighton and Hove and Japan: many of the commanders of the Japanese fleet that destroyed the Imperial Russian Navy at Tsushima in 1905 were trained at the King Alfred Centre. They are seen as the fathers of the Imperial Japanese Navy that became infamous in WWII, through Pearl Harbour, the conquest of much of South East Asia and the Pacific. Fortunately they were ultimately defeated and the King Alfred was subject to several revamps.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

This thread is worthless without @Garry Nelson's Left Foot

I'm far too classy to make the obvious joke about my greatest Brighton - Japanese 'interactions'

 

[cunning fergus]

The 9th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment fought in Burma against the Japanese from about 1942 onwards……………

9th Btn. Royal Sussex Capture "The Rising Sun"

This photo has been supplied to me by one of our new members Spitfire MK1. His father Frank Gash served in the 9th Battalion, Royal Sussex and went...

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Plenty of interactions there, albeit not everyone in that battalion would be men from Sussex.

 

[Grassman]

The 9th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment fought in Burma against the Japanese from about 1942 onwards……………

9th Btn. Royal Sussex Capture "The Rising Sun"

This photo has been supplied to me by one of our new members Spitfire MK1. His father Frank Gash served in the 9th Battalion, Royal Sussex and went...

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Plenty of interactions there, albeit not everyone in that battalion would be men from Sussex.

My dad was sent to Burma in 1944, aged 18, to fight, pretty sure he wasn’t in that battalion though.
He was never a fan of the Japanese after that…..

 

[Giraffe]

Quite a lot of Sussex men, my grandfather included, had interaction with the Japanese between 1942-1945. EDIT: others beat me to it!

 

[Giraffe]

The 9th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment fought in Burma against the Japanese from about 1942 onwards……………

9th Btn. Royal Sussex Capture "The Rising Sun"

This photo has been supplied to me by one of our new members Spitfire MK1. His father Frank Gash served in the 9th Battalion, Royal Sussex and went...

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Plenty of interactions there, albeit not everyone in that battalion would be men from Sussex.

Are you able to download that photo? Pretty sure my grandfather was in that Battalion.

 

[raymondo]

Is the correct answer, I was lucky enough to be down in that corner when they went over the line....
Absolutely loved it, I went nuts, it was a personal victory for me, sticking it to all those horrible South African site managers I have come across over the years....

Take that.

Why did you post that... now I'm crying again

 

[Official Old Man]

Why did you post that... now I'm crying again

Me too. What a day, and I'm not a rugby fan. Lucky enough to get a last minute ticket sat behind the camera gantry after the cameras were put in. Had no idea what was happening other than SA were expected to win big.