Nisei soldier at train station

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Matsui Family Collection

The caption in the photo album reads "Note our train 'Allied Forces New Bedford'; Lt. Ishimoto wonders what to snap next". Takashi Matsui and other Nisei soldiers wait at Shimonoseki train station in southern Japan. Matsui was stationed in Japan with the U.S. military during the Allied occupation of Japan after the end of World War II.

c. 1947

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Densho

Courtesy of Matsui Family Collection, Densho

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