Image:Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.jpg

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English:

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

日本語:

山本五十六

Origin: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h79000/h79462kc

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The United States Navy's National Historical Centre states that this is an official portrait of Yamamoto painted by Shugaku Homma, on 1943. .

Article 6 of Japan's old copyright law (cited as an authority by Template:PD-Japan-oldphoto) states:

"Article 6. Copyright in a work published or publicly performed under the name of a governmental or public agency, school, shrine or temple, association, company or any other organization as its author shall endure for thirty years from the time of such publication or public performance."

As an official portrait commissioned by the Imperial government of Japan, this portrait became public domain on 1973.
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An uncropped version of this painting is Image:Yamamoto official portrait NH 79462.jpg

The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed):
  • Isoroku Yamamoto
  • Attack on Pearl Harbour
  • Empire of Japan
  • Wikipedia:Possibly unfree images/US government portraits
  • Portal:World War II/Selected biography
  • Portal:World War II/Selected biography/7
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