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img Imperial Hotel (ddr-densho-162-2)

The Imperial Hotel was operated by the Hatsuzo Murakami Family.

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img Imperial Hotel (ddr-one-2-342)

Black and white photographic print of Imperial Hotel pond. Inscribed on the back: "47/Imperial Hotel."

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img Imperial Hotel (ddr-one-2-334)

Black and white photographic print of Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel (in background) designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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img Imperial Hotel (ddr-densho-397-98)

The caption in the photo album reads "Part of Imperial Hotel Note - [the] Spring. Nov. 46". Takashi Matsui was stationed in Japan with the U.S. military during the Allied occupation of Japan after the end of World War II.

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img Man standing (ddr-densho-326-550)

Caption: Ky / Tokyo Japan / Imperial Hotel

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img Streets of Tokyo (ddr-one-2-335)

Black and white photographic print of Avenue A, a main road in Tokyo, taken from the Park Hotel, with Imperial Hotel on the right.

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img Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel in Tokyo (ddr-densho-299-199)

Caption: "Frank Lloyd Wright's famous earthquake proof Imperial Hotel, Tokyo. Only for colonels and / higher ranks."

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img Nisei soldiers in France (ddr-densho-164-50)

Nisei soldier's caption: Hotel Imperial. Every so often we got off for four days to come here and take it easy. Passes to go to Nice and Beaujolais.

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img Crater from a direct hit on a bomb shelter (ddr-densho-381-86)

Caption: 32. Direct hit was registered on a bombshelter in back of the Imperial Hotel resulting in five deaths. Jan.27,1945 (Teikoku Hoteru ura taihego ni chokugekidan wo komugi sokusha gomei wo dasu. Showa niju nen ichigatsu nijushichi nichi)

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img Ikkaku Matsuzawa seated at a table with other men (ddr-njpa-4-909)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "(Tokyo) May 31, 1937. The Oriental Athletic Society Extraordinary General Meeting will be held on June 3rd. However, the request for a postponement of the first championship series, planned to held next year, by the Philippines is causing a problem of whether it will be canceled or delayed and has made the …

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img Farewell banquet for Mr. Klingebiel (ddr-njpa-1-35)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "(Tokyo) August 4, 1938. A farewell banquet was held at the Imperial Hotel from 12:30 on the 4th for Mr. Klingebiel, a technical advisor for the Tokyo Olympics who will return home to Germany at the end of the month. The banquet was attended by those who had worked with him. Photograph: …

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img Kocho Otani reading a speech at a party (ddr-njpa-4-1897)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "Buddha's [?] in the Imperial capital. An invitation party for Higashi Honganji. (Tokyo) On the night of December 4th, Abbot Kocho Otani and his wife Tomoko advocated a radical reformation of teaching and learning. They held a tea party at the Imperial Hotel on the afternoon of the 4th. Kocho Otani is …

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img Henri de Baillet-Latour on a stage with actors in costume (ddr-njpa-4-739)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "Olympics in Tokyo. Count Henri de Baillet-Latour, President of the International Olympic Committee, came to Tokyo on the evening of the 19th. After dropping his luggage at the Imperial Hotel, he went to Shimbashi Theater at 8 p.m. During the intermission Takiko Mizunoe and Orie talked with the president and encouraged him …

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img Agnes Yoshiko Miyakawa (ddr-njpa-4-1088)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "A songstress who grew up in a foreign country, Yoshiko Miyakawa came home. This morning a world-famous singer, Yoshiko Miyakawa, came home on the Ryuden Maru, arriving at Yokohama Bay. Yoshiko is still a bud at 19 years old. She played the leading role in 'Madam Butterfly' in Paris in January of …

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img Wang Chonghui speaking with General Mazaki (ddr-njpa-1-1020)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "(Tokyo) February 23, 1935. Wang Chonghui, who spent the morning of the 23rd visiting General Araki and Deputy Chief of the Navy General Staff Admiral Kato, visited Inspector General of Military Education General Mazaki after finishing his meeting with Admiral Kato and conferred with him for about 30 minutes from 11:30 a.m. …

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img Emanuel Feuermann seated with Mr. Kitzenger [?] (ddr-njpa-1-345)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "Unsurpassed King of the Cello. Feuermann's Long-Awaited Trip to Japan! (Tokyo) October 4, 1934. Emanuel Feuermann, an unparalleled genius cellist known throughout the world who is now at Columbia, and his accompanist Mr. Kitzenger [?] entered Tokyo at 8:25 a.m. on the 4th. Driven from his post as a cello instructor at …

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img Wang Chonghui seated with Ambassador Jiang (ddr-njpa-1-1019)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "Goodwill Ambassador Wang Chonghui Comes to Japan. (Tokyo) February 19, 1935. With Sino-Japanese relations recently improving, Wang Chonghui, justice of the Permanent Court of International Justice, has been dispatched as an envoy from Chiang Kaishek, who wishes to see the intentions of the Japanese government and people towards taking concrete steps to …

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doc Japanese Immigrants in Idaho, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming (ddr-densho-423-339)

Including photos of businesses and homes, family portraits, state maps. Section of full and partial page advertisements for businesses including photos and proprietors between pages 272 and 273.

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doc Letter from Masao Okine to Mr. and Mrs. Okine, January 19, 1946 [in Japanese] (ddr-csujad-5-124)

A letter from Masao Okine to his parents, Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine in Hawthorne, California. This letter is written in Japan where Masao is stationed as a U.S. military soldier and mailed via San Francisco by the U.S. Army Postal Service. Masao describes his stay in Japan, being transferred from Sagamihara, Kanagawa, to Tokyo, possibly being …

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doc Newspaper clipping regarding Joseph Grew (ddr-njpa-1-472)

Caption on front [translation]: "Ambassador Grew to Retire After 9 Years in Tokyo. Plans to Return to America in Early May. (Tokyo 21 Domei). According to today's Yomiuri Shimbun, US Ambassador to Japan Joseph Grew will likely return home on a leave of absence in early May. The same paper also stated that Ambassador Grew hopes …

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