Spy Morris Moe Berg
- Chuo-ku Akashi cho.
- That is the St Luka's International Hospital.
- How long is there that?
- It was built from in 1902.
- I like that building.
- That is the old hospital ward.
- Who designed it?
- Three Czechs and one American.
- Antonin Raymond is a famous architect.
- Who is he?
- Antonin was born in Czech in 1888.
- And, moved to America in 1910.
- Afterwards, became American.
- He launched business in Japan in 1922.
- What did he build?
- Churches, schools or embassy.
- He designed the buildings more than 60.
- Did I look?
- Antonin knew the building of Japan well.
- He cooperated with bombing operation of America in The Pacific War.
- What kind of work did he do?
- He reproduced a Japanese private house faithfully.
- The United States did a study to burn a citizen to death.
- 100,000 citizens died in two hours.
- Most Japanese houses were made of wood.
- After the war, he worked again in Japan.
- But he was angry.
- Why angry?
- American who occupied Japan painted Antonin's building white.
- American likes painting a wall white.
- Was this hospital safe?
- This is the paper which the United States Armed Forces sprinkled.
- Attention of the bombing?
- This is a strategy to let enemies lose the fighting spirit.
- I will immediately run away.
- They painted a cross black for prevention of bombing.
- Like a Gothic fashion.
- After war, U.S Armed occupied this hospital.
- Do you know the man?
- Who?
- Baseball player?
- Morris Moe Berg.
- He was a American baseball player.
- I'm not interested in baseball.
- He was a spy of CIA.
- Though he is an athlete?
- He came to Japan for a baseball game in 1934.
- But he was in this hospital without playing a game.
- What was he doing?
- He took a photograph of Tokyo from the roof.
- It is spy activities.
- United States fixed a bombing point referring to the photograph.
- They used this information for the Doolittle raid of 1942.
- What is the Doolittle raid?
- It is first bombing operation by B25.
- They were going to cross Japan.
- Succeed?
- It was all destroyed.
- The story of war is delicate.
- Japan has many taboos.
- Okay, I talk the most taboo story of Yasukuni-jinja Shrine.
