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doc Letter from Tomoye Takahashi to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-422-59)

Met an American designer with a shop in Tokyo, details about buying trips and negotiations with vendors

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doc Harry Kono recruits an African American Baseball Player (ddr-ajah-6-348)

Contract signed by Harry Kono with James Bonner to play with Dai Tokyo Baseball Club, with annotations

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doc Katsu Fujii's travel documents (ddr-densho-433-288)

Travel documents for Katsu Fujii's roundtrip from San Francisco to Tokyo, including insurance documents, ticket, and brochures.

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doc Short article regarding Kosho Otani (ddr-njpa-4-1916)

Article [translation]: "Abbot K. Otani, Feeling Better, Heads for Home. Buddhist Abbot Kosho K. Otani, heir to the leadership of the 10 million member Higashi Hongwanji Sect, will leave tonight for Tokyo after recuperating in Hawaii from an attack of mumps. The Abbot had reservations for Japan Air Line's flight 603, arriving at Tokyo 9:30 a.m. …

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img Opera singer posing with Japanese soldiers (ddr-njpa-4-1359)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "Summertime greeting. Summer 1932. 42 Banchi, 1 Cho-me, Shinami, Asabu, Tokyo, Takane Nanbu."

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doc Letter from Henri Takahashi to Takahashi Trading Co. (ddr-densho-422-203)

Received their letters when he returned to Tokyo, updates on meetings, problems with makers, his leg is better.

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av Ueno Park b-roll, part 2 of (ddr-densho-1007-1728)

Footage filmed at Ueno Park in Tokyo. Original title: 235, II JA #67, Ueno Park, Mon. Feb. 3

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img Wang, Chongui on a train (ddr-njpa-1-1018)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "(Tokyo) February 27, 1935. Wang Chonghui, who visited Tokyo on the 19th while returning to The Hague and held important meetings with major public and private figures such as Prime Minister Okada, Foreign Minister Hirota, and War Minister Hayashi and worked to improve Sino-Japanese goodwill finished his important mission and his arrangements …

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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 Group photo on a bridge (ddr-densho-494-12)

Meriko Maida on far left. Caption on webpage: "In Tokyo \ The album begins in Tokyo with pictures with the Fukushima family. As with many other pictures in this album, Meriko's sister-in-law Haru Tokuno Fukushima appears often in travels by the two (sometimes three, with Kozo)." and "Although we no longer know who they were, Meriko …

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img View from NYK Building (ddr-one-2-344)

Black and white photographic print of Tokyo central train station in distance taken from NYK building window with a bus parked in lot that Shiuko Sakai would take to Park Hotel. Inscribed on the back: "24 May 47/Tokyo Station from office window/route 2 busses we ride."

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doc The Northwest Times Vol. 3 No. 60 (July 27, 1949) (ddr-densho-229-227)

"Canada Japanese to Get Bonus" (p. 1), "Ex-Seattleite in Tokyo Reports on Japanese Repats from USSR" (p. 1).

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img Husband and wife posing with leis (ddr-njpa-4-1504)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "Tokyo. Owner of Nonomiya. Yasuo Nojima and wife Ine visited Hawaii by the Chichibu Maru."

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img Outside the Imperial Palace Moat (ddr-one-2-337)

Black and white photographic print of Heidi Okihara, beneath a tree by moat at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.

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doc Scene the International East-West Magazine Vol. 6 No. 7 (July 1955) (ddr-densho-266-76)

Selected article titles: "Pacific Business Report" (p. 6), "Sacramento's Japanese Art" (p. 22), "Dining Out in Tokyo" (p. 32).

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doc Letter from Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-422-180)

Spent time in Moji with the family, has not been feeling well, returned to Tokyo, met with more contacts

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img Takako Nakamoto (ddr-njpa-4-1546)

Caption on front [translation]: "Tokyo, Takako Nakamoto. 1. Writer; 2. Kadoshima village, Toyoura, Yamaguchi; 3. November 19, 1903; 4. Yamaguchi Girls' High School; 5. 8-16 __________ Kyobashi, Tokyo; 6. Music, reading; 7. After graduating, she taught at an elementary school in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, and she went to Tokyo in 1927. She wrote the short stories 'The …

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img Survivor of Doolittle's Raid (ddr-densho-299-91)

Caption: "One of the survivors of a plane shot down over Tokyo during Gen Doolittle's / bombing of Tokyo. Early in the war when our morale was low a plan was / devised to modify some bombers so they could take off from aircraft carriers. / However, they could not land on the carriers so after …

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img Yosuke Matsuoka waving to a crowd from a train (ddr-njpa-4-898)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "Foreign Minister Matsuoka leaving. Foreign Minister Matsuoka went on his way to visit Europe with his attendants on the 12th, departing from Tokyo Station at 10:25 a.m. The picture shows Foreign Minister Matsuoka at Tokyo Station, receiving a send-off from government officials and the public."

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img Nisei interpreter questioning a witness (ddr-densho-114-137)

Original caption: 2nd Lieutenant Fred A. Suzawana of El Monte, Calif., Nisei Japanese interpreter for the international prosecution section, of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Tokyo, Japan, questions Mr. Isao Fujita (left), a witness for the prosecution, in the War Ministry Building, Tokyo, Japan. 9-3-46.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-114-137/

doc 'Little Tokyo' Splits Over Orient Crisis (September 1, 1937) (ddr-densho-56-474)

The Seattle Daily Times, September 1, 1937, p. 8

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doc Tokyo Rose WantsTo Return to U.S. (November 6, 1947) (ddr-densho-56-1182)

The Seattle Daily Times, November 6, 1947, p. 10

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img Portrait of Koju Norisugi, a Tokyo music school principal (ddr-njpa-4-1528)

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img Suiun Komuro with wife and daughter at Tokyo Station (ddr-njpa-4-495)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "Painter Komuro visits Europe. A giant star in Japanese painting circles, Suiun Komuro left for Europe accompanied by his wife and the painter Hiroshima. They left Tokyo Station at 9 a.m. on the 18th, and took the ship Miyazaki Maru from Kobe on the 20th. There were many people at the station …

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img Suiun Komuro at Tokyo Station with wife and daughters (ddr-njpa-4-497)

Caption on reverse [translation]: "Komuro returns. The painter Komuro came back to Japan from Europe by the ship Asama Maru at 10 a.m. on July 9th. The ship entered Yokohama port, then he took a train from there, arriving in Tokyo Station at 10 p.m. The photo is Mr. Komura with his wife and daughters, who …

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