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20th Infantry Regiment Site (Camp Fukuchiyama and Historical Museum)
歩兵第二十聯隊跡（福知山駐屯地・垣将集館）
The former barracks of the 20th Infantry Regiment remain in military use at Camp Fukuchiyama. An officers' assembly building dating from the regiment's 1898 arrival survives as a historical museum, accessible by advance arrangement.
Former Sumitomo Metal Industries Propeller Factory
住友金属工業プロペラ製造所跡
Site of the former Sumitomo Metal Industries Propeller Manufacturing Plant in Sakurajima, Konohana-ku, Osaka. Established in 1933 as Japan's largest aircraft propeller factory, Sumitomo produced 66% of all Japanese military aircraft propellers during WWII — approximately 89,885 units — including constant-speed propellers for the Zero fighter, under license from Hamilton Standard. The factory was devastated by U.S. incendiary bombing on June 15, 1945.
Hisai Army Barracks and Former 30th Infantry Brigade Headquarters
久居陸軍兵営跡・旧歩兵第三十旅団司令部（久居駐屯地）
Camp Hisai occupies the former Imperial Army barracks established in 1908. Its surviving 30th Infantry Brigade headquarters now houses a museum of the units stationed here; visits to this active military camp require advance arrangements.
Kashihara Jingu
橿原神宮
Kashihara Jingu is a Shinto shrine in Kashihara, Nara Prefecture, dedicated to Emperor Jimmu, the mythical first emperor of Japan. Founded in 1890, it became the focal point of the massive Kigen 2600 celebrations in 1940, drawing approximately 10 million visitors that year, and served as a key site for kokutai (national polity) ideology and spiritual mobilization during wartime Japan.
Kobe Air Raids Monument of Life and Peace
神戸空襲を忘れない いのちと平和の碑
A memorial monument in Okurayama Park, Kobe, erected in 2013 to commemorate the victims of the devastating 1945 air raids that killed over 8,800 people and destroyed half of the city.
Kori Army Ammunition Factory Site (Myokenyama Chimney)
香里製造所跡（妙見山の煙突）
A surviving boiler chimney marks the former Kori ammunition factory in Hirakata. The works dried propellant delivered from Uji and filled shells and bombs; the chimney now stands within a working water facility with limited public openings.
Namura Osaka Shipyard Remains (Creative Center Osaka)
名村造船所大阪工場跡地（クリエイティブセンター大阪）
A former shipyard on the Kizu River that built wartime standard merchant ships. Its surviving industrial spaces now host Creative Center Osaka; access is through scheduled tours or events, with no ordinary free entry.
Seki Underground Factory of Suzuka Naval Arsenal
鈴鹿海軍工廠関防空工場跡（関地下工場）
Sealed tunnel entrances in Kannon-yama recall an underground dispersal factory producing aircraft machine-gun ammunition in 1945. The surrounding park is accessible, but ordinary visits are limited to exterior viewing.
Uji Army Gunpowder Factory Remains (Uji Garrison)
宇治火薬製造所跡（宇治駐屯地）
A former army explosives factory that continued production through 1945. Part of its extensive grounds is now Uji Garrison, where an altered nineteenth-century brick water tower survives; access is controlled.
Uzurano Airfield Remains (Himeji Naval Air Group)
鶉野飛行場跡（姫路海軍航空隊）
A former naval training airfield in Kasai with a surviving concrete runway, shelters and gun positions. Its wartime role also included test flights for Kawanishi aircraft assembled nearby.
Yanagimoto Airfield (Yamato Naval Air Group Yamato Base)
柳本飛行場（大和海軍航空隊大和基地）
A hastily constructed Imperial Japanese Navy airfield in Nara Prefecture, built 1943–1945 as the Yamato Naval Air Group's Yamato Base. Intended as a major homeland defense installation with four runways, only one 1,500-meter runway was completed before the war ended. The base housed the Yamato Naval Air Group's training aircraft and, from July 1945, a fighter unit and the Kinki Naval Air Corps headquarters, and was reportedly earmarked for the Third Air Fleet command for the anticipated defense against Allied landings on the Kii Peninsula. Two concrete air raid shelters survive as preserved war ruins.
Yokaichi Airfield & Nunobiki Aircraft Revetments
八日市飛行場・布引掩体群
One of Japan's earliest military airfields, established in 1922 in Shiga Prefecture's Okinogahara plain. The site's most significant surviving remains are the Nunobiki Revetment Group — 17 aircraft shelters constructed in 1944–1945 along a 2-kilometer stretch of the Nunobiki Hills, a rare surviving wartime aircraft shelter complex in Shiga Prefecture. The airfield hosted the Army Aviation 3rd Regiment, and later the 244th Fighter Regiment that defended the homeland against B-29 raids. Actor Toshiro Mifune served here as a private first class in charge of the cookhouse.