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Rare Photographs of Japan in August and September 1945

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U.S. Soldiers surrendering in 1942.

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Hiroshima burns.

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Nagasaki

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Special Japanese airplane, painted white with large green cross that carried initial surrender delegation to American territory.

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U.S. Soldier in Tokyo on August 29, 1945, before the initial arrival of the Americans and before the actual sighing of the surrender documents. Scattered fighting continued in some isolated areas around Asia.

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First U.S. Soldiers land at airport outside of Yokohama. Greeted by Japanese and surprisingly Russian delegates, who had landed several days earlier in Tokyo.

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Hirohito November 1945

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Nanking 1937

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Ground level photographs of Tokyo in October 1945.

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The following photographs cover the initial occupation of Tokyo from September to December 1945. Most people are amazed to see how quickly peace was restored. Striking is the baseball game played in Tokyo, between the U.S. Military team and the Japanese team. It is not known who won the game. Destruction is widespread and massive amounts of food was imported from the USA to Japan. To cover the food shortage, the US purchased food from South America, as well as other countries not effected by the war.

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Most public transportation was destroyed in the war so that there were long lines of people waiting to board.

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Little fuel was available for private japanese so oxcarts and horse drawn carts were often used. Electric cars as well as steam and a unique system of wood gas was also used. Towards the end of the war, to make up for the fuel shortage, Japan liquified coal to produce gasoline. Quantities of coal was available on Hakaido as well as in the district north of Chiba. In addition, whole forrests were cut down to produce turpentine which was also used to power Japanese fighter planes, as an emergency measure.

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Black markets and open markets were allowed after the war. 1945

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  These photographs and images are from the Didik collection or are from various national archives and are believed to be in the public domain, as defined under the Berne Convention and/or the U.S. Department of Commerce Copyright office, and/or Japanese Law No. 48 of May 6, 1970, as amended by Laws No. 49 of May 18, 1978, No. 45 of May 19, 1981, No. 78 of December 2, 1983, No. 23 of May 1, 1984, No. 46 of May 25, 1984, No. 62 of June 14, 1985, No. 64 of May 23, 1986, No. 65 of May 23, 1986, No. 87 of November 1, 1988, No. 43 of June 28, 1989, No. 63 of May 2, 1991, No. 106 of December 16, 1992, No. 89 of November 12, 1993, No. 112 of December 14, 1994, and No. 91 of May 12, 1995, Chapter 1, Article 55, unless otherwise noted. Sales of photographs considered to be in the public domain are structured as a research fee with the understanding that the research fee buyer will hold to the contractual provisions as listed under Terms and General Publication Prices. A considerable amount of time, effort and money has been spent locating, purchasing, restoring and cataloging these images and as such, the complication as a total is protected under the provisions of the copyright law and can not be copied in total. On this website, please enjoy viewing the fascinating photographs and images of Japan in the past. To obtain a full sized photograph(s) for publication in a magazine, book, newspaper or simply for your personal collection, we will be happy to provide you with the best possible copy of the photograph that we have on file based on our fee schedule listed under Terms and General Publication Prices. Thank you for you for your interest and your understanding. Please note that we are in the process of vastly expanding this photographic section and we expect to have over 75,000 images of all areas of Japan prior to 1939 available on line by the end of the year. Please contact us if we can be of assistance to you. If there is a particular historic area that you wish to have photographs from, we will be happy to research our collection as well as the various private and national collections to assist you in obtaining any image.

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