June 2025 Visit to China: Touchstones of History

FUSHUN, the location of the great open-pit coal mine:

the strip-mine is now covered with greenery:

The coal mine museum:

Public art showing mining work:

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SHENYANG: I stayed at the old Yamato Hotel:

it is still elegant, although a century old and much larger than I had imagined:

the very stage where Yamaguchi sang at the age of thirteen:

an article about Yamaguchi which was posted in the hotel: 

the old Shenyang Railway Station:

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SANHAIGUAN, which Yoshiko mentions in her memoir:

Beijing: at the location of Yoshiko's 1935 Beijing residence at Picai Hutong. The residence is no longer there, having been replaced some time ago by a small commercial building.  

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