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img Showing of Tannhauser to promote culture and the arts (ddr-densho-299-202)

Caption: "To encourage the arts and in an attempt to expose the GIs to 'culture,' Wagner's opera Tannhauser / was presented."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-299-202/

img A traditional imperial ceremony (ddr-densho-299-197)

Caption: ";Unchanged [sic] for centuries, an imperial ceremony is held within the palace grounds."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-299-197/

img Performance of The Mikado (ddr-densho-299-206)

Caption: "The Mikado played in Japan for the first time. The operetta would have been considered sacrilegious before / the occupation."

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img Japanese recruits stand at attention (ddr-densho-299-105)

Caption: "Note how young the recruits are."

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img Japanese men make fuel from charcoal (ddr-densho-299-116)

Caption: "With no gasoline available they devised a method of using charcoal to generate a gas sufficient to / power an engine. They would place the charcoal into large containers on the truck."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-299-116/

img Japanese political demonstrations (ddr-densho-299-138)

Caption: "For the first time the populace was allowed to hold demonstrations. Notice that traffic in Japan is on the left side. All the vehicles are GI vehicles. The sedans are staff cars."

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img Removing bayonets from captured weapons (ddr-densho-299-101)

Caption: "Bayonets are removed from the rifles."

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img The Daibutsuden (ddr-densho-299-214)

Caption: "Daibutsuden. Home of the huge bronze buddah. Largest wooden structure in the / world. Some idea of the size can be made by looking at the people in the doorway."

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img Japanese refugees row a boat through flooded streets (ddr-densho-299-112)

Caption: "Earthquakes and floods come so regularly that people don't seem to get too excited."

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img Japanese farmers with "Honey Buckets" full of fertilizer (ddr-densho-299-182)

Caption: "'Honey Buckets' full of human excrement collected to be used for fertilizer."

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img The Dai Ichi building (ddr-densho-299-135)

Caption: "The Dai Ichi building, one of the few buildings which withstood the firebombing / becomes headquarters of SCAP General Douglas MacArthur."

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img Detention block in Sugamo prison (ddr-densho-299-155)

Caption: "Sugamo prison where all the class 'A' war criminals were held."

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img Japanese artillery (ddr-densho-299-107)

Caption: "Artillery pieces to be destroyed."

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img Mitsubishi factory remains (ddr-densho-299-132)

Caption: "Remains of Mitsubishi aircraft factory in Yokohama after air raid"

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img Eruption of Mount Aso (ddr-densho-299-175)

Two photos. One of the eruption as seen from MacArthur's plane. The other of Ted Akimoto's head peeking out from the cockpit of the plane.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-299-175/

img Sadao Araki testifying on his own behalf during the trials (ddr-densho-299-157)

Caption: "Sadao Araki, Former war minister, minister of supreme war council, education minister / became the first of 25 to testify on his own behalf."

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img Japanese forces signing the surrender treaty (ddr-densho-299-97)

Caption: "General Douglas MacArthur puts his signature on the document."

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img Ted Akimoto taking a photograph (ddr-densho-299-144)

Caption: "Our cameras were bulky 4x5 Speed Graphics. Nothing was automatic. You took a wood film holder / which held one piece of film on each side, placed it in the back, pulled out a slide, put in a flash bulb, / figured out your exposure and cocked the shutter, set the f stop, focused and …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-299-144/

img General MacArthur receiving doctorate degree (ddr-densho-299-133)

Caption: "General MacArthur receives an honorary doctorate from the University of Manila."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-299-133/

img Tojo talking with his defense attorneys (ddr-densho-299-161)

Caption: "Tojo with his two defense attorneys."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-299-161/

img Ted Akimoto and a woman look at pieces of rubble from blast (ddr-densho-299-148)

First two words of caption are partially covered. May refer to a "General Hansey [?]" Caption: "…secretary and I look at some fragments trying to identify what they might / have been we're about 50 meters from the epicenter of the blast which was directly on top / of the dome in the background."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-299-148/

img General MacArthur recieves the Legion of Honor (ddr-densho-299-184)

Caption: "The French government honor General MacArthur with the Legion of Honor."

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img Prisoners being transferred from prison to the trials by bus (ddr-densho-299-158)

Caption: "Prisoners en route from prison to trials. Tojo is man with glasses in second row."

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img Tea for the ranking officers' wives under General MacArthur (ddr-densho-299-200)

Caption: "Mrs. MacArthur at a tea she gave for the wives of the ranking officers of his command."

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img View of the street where the Allied Power's HQ was located (ddr-densho-299-143)

Caption: "General MacArthur, Supreme Commander Allied Power's headquarters is the first building on right."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-299-143/

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