Historic Buildings

　　I visited the Maizuru World Brick Museum, which collects a variety of bricks globally and shows pictures of lots of brick buildings. I didn't expect, but I was able to see, lots of records about the war between Japan and Russia in 1904. I'd like to have stayed there more time, but I didn't have enough time to see all of them. The buildings made of bricks are preserved across the country and some of them are still in use. The nostalgic atmosphere of brick buildings has caught on in a big way in Japan. I'm writing about brick houses later again in the article on Hakodate City.
　　Maizuru City has remarkably evolved out of a small fishery town as one of the principal military ports of Japan. In the era when all the colored people other than Thais and Japanese were ruled by superpowers, Japan was intimidated by the possible invasion of Russia. Maizuru port took on the task for the defense against Russia. The red brick houses were built for the storage of munitions and some of those brick houses still stand at the port.