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img 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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img Building where the Tokyo war crimes trials were held (ddr-densho-299-154)

Caption: "Site of the war crimes trials."

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img 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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img 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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img 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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img 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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img 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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img 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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img 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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img 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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img Japanese recruits stand at attention (ddr-densho-299-105)

Caption: "Note how young the recruits are."

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img 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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img 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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img Removing bayonets from captured weapons (ddr-densho-299-101)

Caption: "Bayonets are removed from the rifles."

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img 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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img 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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img 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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img 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."

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img Snow in Hokkaido, Japan (ddr-densho-299-61)

Caption on reverse: "FEC-49-741. 5 Feb 49 / Snow scene in Hokkaido, Japan: / A view of Japan's skiing utopia in / Hokkaido, Japan. / Photographer - Uchida / Photograph by U.S. Army."

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img The Dai Ichi building (ddr-densho-299-135)

Caption: "The Dai Ichi building, one of the few buildings which withstood the firebombing / becomes headquarters of SCAP General Douglas MacArthur."

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img Detention block in Sugamo prison (ddr-densho-299-155)

Caption: "Sugamo prison where all the class 'A' war criminals were held."

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img A field of rice shocks (ddr-densho-299-16)

Caption on reverse: "WPA-46-69185. 25 Nov 46 / Field of rice shocks: / This field of rice shocks around / Yoshida-mura, Yamakashi, Japan, is / a typical farm scene of Japan in / the fall. / Photographer - Wheeler."

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