Hiroshima, Japan-Devastated by the first atomic bomb nine years ago, Hiroshima is still in the midst of reconstructing its war-torn buildings. By...
Hiroshima, Japan-Devastated by the first atomic bomb nine years ago, Hiroshima is still in the midst of reconstructing its war-torn buildings. The...
The reconstruction of the Sanno Hotel in Tokyo, Japan, circa 1947. The hotel was largely destroyed by Allied bombing during World War II, and was...
Outcaste Burakumin children in an etamura or eta town watching a Kamishibai puppet show, during the post-war Allied occupation of Japan, circa 1950.
Hiroshima, Japan-Devastated by the first atomic bomb nine years ago, Hiroshima is still in the midst of reconstructing its war-torn buildings....
Japanese troops await demobilisation a month after the surrender of Japan, Tokyo, 26th September 1945.
In deference to the occupation forces, new signs on a street in the Ginza district are in English, rather than Japanese characters, in Tokyo, Japan,...
General Hideki Tojo during his trial and sentenced to death for Imperial Japanese war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East...
Woman carries a baby past a new block of flats in Hiroshima, Japan, circa 1955. Virtually all the city's old housing was destroyed in the atomic bomb...
Member of the US Military Police inspects a GI entering the Cabaret Mimatsu in the Ginza, Tokyo, during the Allied occupation of Japan after World...
The post-war buildings in this district of Nagasaki were erected quickly of wood and cement blocks, and bomb damage appears minimal, despite the...
Group of men hold and examine a large piece of wooden and metal equipment on a construction site in Japan, 1952. .
Postwar replica of the 'Little Boy' nuclear weapon, which was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945. U.S. Government Photo, circa 1946.
New blocks of flats in Nagasaki, Japan, circa 1955. The new housing is built on a part of the city destroyed in the atomic bomb attack of 1945.
Tokyo, Japan-A workman is shown measuring the amount of food handed out in individual rations of the largest single amount of U.S. Food ever released...
Two Western visitors to Japan pose for a photograph, the man wearing a trench coat and hat and holding a camera, the woman wearing a Japanese kimono,...
Tokyo, Japan-A workman is shown handing out individual rations of the largest single amount of U.S. Food ever released in Japan 250 tons of wheat...
Four women wearing colorful kimonos sit inside a traditional Japanese Minka style house with paper and wood walls, in postwar Japan, 1955.
Japanese man and woman thresh rice outside their home in post-war Japan in a snapshot taken by a US serviceman.
Former Japanese prime minister and minister of war Hideki Tojo takes the stand to testify in his own defense, during the International Tribunal for...
Policeman checks on the homeless people sleeping on the ground in Ueno Station, Tokyo, Japan, circa 1947.
Tokyo, Japan-At the recent "Rice Rally," staged by Japanese workers in front of the Imperial Palace, was Sarizo Nozaka , Secretary of the Communist...
Japanese man with bald head, robe and long beard smiling and holding the hands of his young daughter, who wears a traditional pink Kimono and Geta...
Japanese families walking down the embankment of a levee towards water, two young girls walking first, with older family members following, some...
Large group of people, including several children, work to construction a home using traditional building materials, including bamboo, Japan, 1952. .
American soldiers relaxing in an army-built ice skating rink in a former Japanese wrestling venue, during the Allied occupation of Japan after World...
War destructions in Berlin - Tiergarten: Großer Tiergarten, view in the Southeast, at the right of the picture the former embassy of Japan and Italy...
Tokyo, Japan-Publication by the government of a White Paper on Housing has caused considerable comment by the press. It was revealed that more than 3...
Japanese woman wearing apron, bending down and fixing the hair of a young girl who wears a red Kimono, Japan, 1943. .
Japanese official in uniform and two formally dressed Japanese men standing in front of an electrical pylon and leafing through a book, Japan, 1952. .
Missionaries at a seated dinner with Japanese congregants at a long rectangular table, serving plated salads, with red water glasses, a poster on the...
Smoking wooden box, in a pit dug in the ground, during performance of a ritual, shadow of a fence in the foreground, Japan, 1952. .
Wedding at a missionary church, bridal party, bridge and groom standing in the front of the church with the pastor, high-angle view, attendees...
Pastor, female organist, and churchgoer signing hymns, the organist and pastor in mid song, the pastor holding a piece of sheet music, the organist...
Altar of a missionary church, with bouquets of flowers, an open bible, and a sign reading In Remembrance of Me, Japan, 1952. .
General Hideki Tojo during his trial and sentenced to death for Imperial Japanese war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East...
Local residents and commuters seated in an underground passageway at Ueno Station in the centre of the city of Tokyo, Japan on 19th August 1946.
Survivor of the Hiroshima atom bomb spent 40 years searching for the Australian soldier who befriended him in the ruins of post-war Japan.And now,...
Bridge in wedding dress, groom and family members posing for a group photo, all with serious expressions, during a wedding in postwar Japan, 1955.
Priest baptizing a Japanese woman, who bows her head, in a Christian missionary church in post war Japan, 1965.
Japan - This file photo taken in postwar Tokyo shows survivors harvesting potatoes in scorched land in front of the Diet building. The photo was...
Lt. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle, flanked by some of the men he led on the first bombing attack of the Japanese mainland on April 18 opens fifth postwar...
Pedestrians walk along a quiet street in the historic Yanaka neighborhood of Tokyo known for its preserved postwar-era atmosphere. Yanaka is one of...
