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Officers of the 1st Cavalry Division (ddr-densho-299-149)
Caption: "The First Cavalry with their mania of 'firsts' have the first review of Tokyo."
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Troops returning from Manchuria (ddr-densho-299-106)
Caption: "Soldiers returning from Manchuria. The effect from our fire bombing is evident. With very few / trains running, most of them had to walk."
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Workfloor of a factory showing the following writing on the wall: "Do Your Best! For the New Nippon Revival" (ddr-densho-299-37)
Caption on reverse: "FEC-47-75959. 17 June 47 / E.S.S. project: / Sign in the Hitachi Seiko Kaish- / a Ltd. machine tool plant, Chiba / Prefecture, Tokyo, Japan. This / factory is not currently slated for / reparations. / Photographer - Kondis / Photograph by U.S. Army Signal Corps."
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Japanese civilians returning from Manchuria (ddr-densho-299-120)
Caption: "Civilians repatriated from Manchuria."
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Japanese glassworker making a bowl (ddr-densho-299-65)
Caption on reverse: "FEC-49-2855. 23 April 49 / Manufacturing of glassware in Japan: / With painstaking care a Japanese employee / at the Hoya Glass Factory, Tokyo, Japan, / fashions a glass bowl. / Photographer - Girard / Photograph by U.S. Army."
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Ruins from explosion (ddr-densho-299-147)
Caption: "One mile from the epicenter of the blast. Notice smokestacks still standing. / Circular objects must divert blast forces better than flat surfaces."
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Surviving museum (ddr-densho-299-126)
Caption: "Museum survived fire bombs but interior completely destroyed."
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Japanese farmer drives his ox pulling his cart (ddr-densho-299-183)
Caption: "Some farmers were lucky enough to have oxen alive after the war."
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Building where the Tokyo war crimes trials were held (ddr-densho-299-154)
Caption: "Site of the war crimes trials."
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Japanese man shaping a glass bowl (ddr-densho-299-48)
Caption on reverse: "FEC-49-2856. 23 April 49 / Manufacturing glassware in Japan: / One of the oldest and highly skilled / employees at Hoya Glass Factory, / Tokyo, Japan, uses a pair of shears / to trim off surplus glass as he care- / fully styles a bowl. / Photographer - Girard / Photograph by U.S. …
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Bell in Nara Park (ddr-densho-299-218)
Caption: 'Daibutsu Bell in Nara Park. Note the size of the bell by comparing to the children."
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Farmers threshing grains during harvest (ddr-densho-299-28)
Caption on reverse: "FEC-47-77285. 14 July 47 / Japanese farmers work together / during harvest time: / Japanese women, men and children / thresh barley and other cereal / grains on a foot-powered threshing / machine at a farm located near / Mount Fuji, Japan. On farms such / as this it is often a community …
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Young Japanese girl dressed in a kimono (ddr-densho-299-181)
Caption: "Young girl in her festival clothes holding a badminton paddle."
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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."
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A traditional imperial ceremony (ddr-densho-299-197)
Caption: ";Unchanged [sic] for centuries, an imperial ceremony is held within the palace grounds."
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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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Fields in the Arakawa River flood plain (ddr-densho-299-60)
Caption on reverse: "FEC-49-1949. 25 March 49 / NRS Project: / Use of flood plain of the Arakawa River / for winter crops -- Tokyo. / Photographer - Crowe / Photograph by U.S. Army."
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Japanese recruits stand at attention (ddr-densho-299-105)
Caption: "Note how young the recruits are."
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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."
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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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Removing bayonets from captured weapons (ddr-densho-299-101)
Caption: "Bayonets are removed from the rifles."
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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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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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American unit earthquake aid office (ddr-densho-299-35)
Caption on reverse: "FEC-48-5605. 30 June 48 / American units on earthquake scene. / An American unit in Fukui, arrived / on the scene of disaster within a / few hours to bring aid to the / victims. With the American flag / flying at the side of the building, / an office has already been …
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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."