Today is the 80th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941 (in Japan time). I learned in newspaper that there remains a radio transmission station that is said to have relayed the famous coded message "Niitakayama nobore 1208", signalling the date of attack (Wikipedia (in Japanese)). It is the Hario Transmission Station (former Sasebo Radio Transmission Station) in Sasebo, Japan. Today, it is a designated important cultural property and is a sightseeing spot (Wikipedia; official site (in Japanese), with QR codes for downloading an app for multilingual explanation (which I have not tried); Wikipedia (in Japanese)).
The photo, created by Lettuce in the Lattice (Wikipedia Commons), is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
After posting the above, I remembered of the Funabashi Radio Transmission Station (Wikipedia (in Japanese)) in Gyoda in Chiba Prefecture, of which I learned from Kazuhiko Yoshida some years ago. It was the station that transmitted the coded message "Niitakayama Nobore 1208" to the Japanese task force in the Pacific heading for Hawaii. Seen from the above, a circular road characteristic of this kind of transmission station is still visible. (In the photo below, the railroad on the left is the Musashino Line.) Although there are no longer transmission towers, the site is designated as a Heritage of Industrial Modernization.
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