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img Emperor Hirohito walks down the streets of Japan (ddr-densho-299-164)

Caption: "The first time Emperor Hirohito walked among the common people. Note the various / expressions."

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doc Invitation for Mine Okubo art show (ddr-densho-356-674)

Invitation for art exhibition "Into the Light: Mine Okubo" at Bank of Boston Gallery.

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doc Shipping Certificate from Japan Marine Surveyors & Sworn Measurers Association (ddr-densho-424-734)

For products sold to Takahashi by Maruichi China Co.

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img Group photo standing by plane (ddr-densho-426-239)

Group holding sign: Japan Airline Welcomes Takahashi Tour. Tomoye Takahashi 4th from left, Masako Takahashi center front. Stamped on back: Please Give Photo Credit to Japan Airlines

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img Group photo standing by plane (ddr-densho-426-238)

Group holding sign: Japan Airline Welcomes Takahashi Tour. Tomoye Takahashi 4th from left, Masako Takahashi center front. Stamped on back: Please Give Photo Credit to Japan Airlines

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img Photo folder from the Fairmont Hotel, Nob Hill San Francisco (ddr-densho-426-240)

Norman and Henri Takahashi at left, Masako and Tomoye on right. With unknown couple. On back: September 1958

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doc Denounces Japan (December 15, 1941) (ddr-densho-56-550)

The Seattle Daily Times, December 15, 1941, p. 12

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img Seeing people off to Japan (ddr-densho-20-4)

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img Great Japan Youth Party leader (ddr-njpa-4-710)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "Counselor of the Great Japan Youth Corps."

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doc Hawaii shows Japan and Asia (ddr-csujad-19-40)

This is an article by Charles S. Bouslog from the magazine "Asia and the Americas," vol. 43, no. 2 (February 1943) which describes the life of the people of Japanese ancestry in Hawaii after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: …

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img Family in Japan, ritual event (ddr-csujad-25-151)

A photograph of the local Japanese taken at a ritual event in Totsugawa, Japan. This photograph most likely includes the Taenakas' relatives. The same image is found in item: ucsb_jia_0128. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: jia_08_03_023

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img Railroad and ruins in Japan (ddr-csujad-42-247)

Photographed is a railroad in Japan in aftermath of bombing attacks. It was presumably taken during the Allied occupation of Japan. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: tak_02_10_008

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img Children en route to Japan (ddr-densho-107-20)

Takeshi and Roy Matsumoto are aboard the Nippon Yusen, Brazil Maru.

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img On ship headed for Japan (ddr-densho-128-86)

Children aboard the Mexico Maru bound for Tokyo. Front row, fourth from right Toshiko Kubo. Front row, fourth from left Frank Kubo.

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doc "Japanese Americans Educated in Japan" (ddr-densho-155-24)

War Relocation Authority's Community Analysis Report No. 8.

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img Kubota family, probably in Japan (ddr-densho-354-70)

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img Boy wearing gi in Japan (ddr-densho-259-8)

Roku Yasui wearing Nihon gi in Nanukaichi, Japan.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-259-8/

img Graduating girls' class in Japan (ddr-densho-259-85)

Shidzuyo Yasui is pictured in the third row, second from the right. Caption by Homer Yasui: "Maybe at the school in Tsuyama, Okayama-ken, Japan, where [Shidzuyo] had also taught for a short time in 1910. This also looks like a girls' graduating class, but [Shidzuyo] and the other teachers are dressed differently."

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img Textile factory workers in Japan (ddr-densho-259-295)

Saburo Miyake's textile factory. Caption by Homer Yasui: "A textile or weaving factory, with the relatives and workers inside the shop. I've always understood that Saburo's and [Shidzuyo Yasui]'s father, Ichiro, ran a fishnet making factory. On the machine just before it reaches the completed roll of fabric, the material does look like netting."

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img Teacher and students in Japan (ddr-densho-259-111)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "In this posed group photo, [Shidzuyo Yasui] looks quite a bit older than a bunch of young girls, so this may have been a class of her students."

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img Overhead view of Fukui, Japan (ddr-densho-299-44)

Caption on reverse: "FEC-48-5331. 28 July 48 / Fukui, one month after earthquake: / One month after the disaster which / came to the southern Japanese / coastal towns, when the earthquake / of 28 June 1948, struck mercilessly / and without warning late in the / afternoon, Fukui already shows / promise of an early …

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img General MacArthur lands in Japan (ddr-densho-299-121)

Caption: "General MacArthur alights from a C-54 at Atsugi airfield, 20 miles out of Tokyo, / for his first glimpse at Japan."

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doc A Parliament House for Japan (ddr-densho-335-19)

A front view of a plan for a parliament house for Japan. Most likely designed as part of a university thesis by Thomas Rockrise.

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doc A Parliament House for Japan (ddr-densho-335-18)

A plan created by Thomas S. Rockrise for a parliament house for Japan. Most likely designed as part of a university thesis by Thomas Rockrise.

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img Tree lined road in Japan (ddr-densho-397-89)

The caption in the photo album reads "Out of focus Oct. '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.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-397-89/

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