So, today NBC reporting:
Japanese blogger said in post on Tuesday that the same photo appears in a Japanese travel book on the Pacific Islands in 1935 —
two years before Earhart and Noonan went missing in July 1937. Japan's national library website also lists the publication date as 1935.
The post said that the original caption of the photo says in Japanese that it was taken in the town of Jabor in Jaluit Atoll, which is in the Marshall Islands. The post says the photo shows a Japanese steam ship that later was used in the search for the pair but that also arrived there sometime in 1935.
According to a translation by NBC News, the caption on the photo mentions Jabor in Japanese as being an exceptionally good port that becomes quite lively when large ships arrive carrying goods from the mainland.
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