PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - political murders in Tokyo. Censorship and the stifling of dissent. A nation hungry for oil and other natural resources. Women in department stores and boarding Street kimono clad cars. A smiling Babe Ruth posing for photos with Japanese teen baseball player while on tour with American all-stars.
Visitors to Pearl Harbor see these snapshots of the 1930's Japan as walk it through the National Park Service new Museum of the 7 December 1941 attack dedicated, which pulled the United States in the second world war. This is a significant departure from the old collection of one of the worst foreign attacks ever on American soil dedicated to - what life like in Japan at that time not much figure into it.
The Centre, which officially opened last December 7 and moves around 4,000 visitors per day, was partly built, because the old, the one to fall was land reclaimed. The Park Service had outgrown even the old annex.
The new Centre is on the same site, but expanded to cover the original area several times. In the middle of a large grassy field with a view to the port to the USS Arizona Memorial, which sits on the battleship, which directly on the Ford Iceland at the height of the battle sank. Benches are located along field outside the exhibition halls and open-air walkways between buildings - a design element to consider an opportunity to the people or to absorb, what they have read, heard and seen in decompress.
Planning for the exhibits started five years ago, when the Park Service brought top historian to brainstorm what should contain the displays. The themes, to fit in two halls, "to War Road" and "Attack." A farm is dedicated to Hawaiian history.
The end result is a broader, more in-depth view of the attack Sunday morning nearly 70 years ago. In the course of the time helped to reach the new vision. So has bitterness rooted to the efforts of the Japanese pilots and American survivors, to each other and to overcome deep.
Daniel Martinez, the Park Service chief Pearl Harbor historian, said it was not possible, include the Japanese point of view in an official investigation of the attack, at the visitors center work when he started in the 1980s.
"It was easy to the last and the wounds were still open," Martinez said. "The idea of the research of the history would rank of some of the survivors of Pearl Harbor were identified, which were still dealing with the wounds of the war."
The old visitors center, which was built in 1980, had models of the USS Arizona and the Japanese aircraft carrier. The small exhibition hall display the items of sailors is stationed then at Pearl Harbor.
It was a shrine as a place, which analyzes a central moment in the history of the twentieth century.
Today, with 56 million dollar renovation, the Park Service's visitors the exhortation allow heed, - "remember Pearl Harbor" - much more thoroughly than before.
The Museum shows parts of Japanese Theatre newsreels, including festive scenes of Ruth play baseball during a tour. The exhibits show also Japan and the United States creeping closer to the war, with headlines about the Japanese invasion of China and US sanctions against Japan.
The advanced Museum allows more of the U.S. story be told, as well. There are photos of bodies crowding the Honolulu morgue, coffins in Kaneohe Beach and a burned corpse on the Hickam field are buried. A pharmacist mate protects a glass display case bloody white uniform. Visitors get to hear what was civilians, including children, the gas masks to school like Hawaii down to dreaded follow-on formulae hunkered down attacks.
The USS Arizona Memorial itself does not change. To get there, continue to visitors board boats by Navy that seafarers for a short drive over the harbour. Often see, once there, they can look down on the rusting hull of the USS Arizona, for the leak of the battleship see drops of oil, still.
Carved the names of those who died in a marble wall. The remains of nearly 1,000 sailors and Marines are buried on the ship.
MARTINEZ said some survivors have understandably wanted to the exhibits as more a shrine and Memorial, in contrast to an interpretation of history to keep. But he said, it is important to people, a complex story to capture.
"We have to understand it." Our former enemies now are our closest allies. So how to do that in line? Part of which it tries reconciliation, the story so fair as we can tell and for these different perspectives, there come so a wider understanding can take place, "said Martinez."
Robert Kinzler, 89, the soldier was stationed in 1941 in a barracks North of Pearl Harbor, said that American survivor was more open to reconciliation, after their former enemies began visiting Hawaii before the 50th anniversary of the attack.
"We started by getting Japanese pilots come and they were ready to answer all questions." And the attitude began to change, "said soon." "There are two sides to this war."
Dive Bomber Pilot Zenji led a group of Japanese veterans to Pearl Harbor, 1991 Abe.
Abe told the associated press in an interview before his death in 2007, that Japan's aircraft moved from their aircraft carrier, that tomorrow faith had delivered a declaration of war their Government. He said, it was dishonorable and went "Bushido", or the way of the Samurai, right to strike before the Declaration of war against Japanese traditions.
"Even if you are running in the early morning attack, not your opponent damage can you, when he is asleep." Must you be him and then go to him with your sword. The Bushido is, "Abe said in 2006." The attack injured "our nation ideal." I said bad, "he."
Not all survivors could make friends with Japanese veterans. Some, relying on the memory of those who died on this day refuse their old enemies that shake hand.
MARTINEZ said Park Service closely consulted survivors, as it planned the new exhibition halls.
"We do not recklessly to." We it did as carefully as we can and still be true for this mission, where we started, the show was the layers of history, good and bad, "said he."
Visitors welcome almost universally of the new concept, people say to listen to different accounts, so that they history error to repeat, not required.
"You can get a complete picture, if you all pages," Bill O'Reilly said Rourke, 69, financial consultants visit from Wycoff, n.j. "it had to reasons why things were done, just as there are reasons, why are today done."
Dharmik Desai, 27-year-old pharmacist from Marlborough, Massachusetts, agreed.
"You always want to hear not only one side of the story but on the other hand." When we went to the Hiroshima, how would we feel you, their Memorial? It's kind of giving and receiving something, Desai said. "Yes, it happened and you have to accept it." "It was a mistake, and you know, we move on."
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If you go...
PEARL HARBOR visitors CENTER: http://www.nps.gov/valr/planyourvisit/things2do.htm. Recently advanced Visitor Center contains two new galleries themes on "to War Road" and "Attack."
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