Recreation activities in Japan. Japanese people rowing on boats in a lake. Athletics as a major part of recreational activities in Japan. Japanese men hiking up a snowy mountain. Japanese boys ice skating in a park. Two men engage in judo. Athletes participate in swimming and running competitions. Japanese children playing different sports in school ground.
The entrance to the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan. View of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in the Kasumigaseki district before it was destroyed by fire during the Great Kanto Earthquake. A car drives away from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building. Pedestrians walking outside the Ministry of Justice building (1-1-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0013). View of the Imperial Diet building, now known as the National Diet building (1 Chome-7-1 Nagatachō, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-0014, Japan). Emperor Hirohito on horseback inspects Japanese troops. Marching Imperial Japanese Army troops before World War II. Emperor Hirohito boards a Japanese Navy ship. Sailors in Japanese Navy ships.
Japan as a tea drinking country. Japanese women picking tea leaves in Central or South Japan. Woman uses a Hishaku bamboo ladle to scoop tea from pot during a traditional tea ceremony. She pours tea into a bowl. She bows to another woman as part of the tea ceremony. She serves tea for the woman. The other woman drinks the tea.
Cotton production, transport, and urbanization in Japan. Shipment of raw cotton from the United States are unloaded from a freighter on a Japanese port. Dock worker pulls lever. The package is offloaded from the ship. Various machines process United States cotton in Japanese factories. OSK Line ship Naruto Maru sailing in New York City. The captain of the Naruto Maru stands beside the Japanese flag. The urbanization of Japanese cities. Overcrowded houses and slum areas because of industrialization in Japan. Vehicles move on the road in a Japanese city.
A doctor examines children in Japan. Children and their parents wait in line as a doctor uses a stethoscope on one of the patients. Japanese babies sitting on a small bench. Young children playing with blocks while daycare teachers watch. Youth wearing kimonos enter and leave the school gates. Japanese children play in slides, swings in the playground. Children perform mass calisthenics outdoors in the morning. Male and female students wearing Japanese attire attend English lesson in classroom. A girl stands up and corrects the sentence written on the blackboard. Japanese boys study chemistry inside a school laboratory. They examine test tubes, write down notes, and raise their hands.
Pearl harvesting industry in Ise Bay, offshore Toba, Mie Prefecture, Japan. Female pearl divers called “Ama” wearing white dresses put on their goggles. Ama divers jump off from boat. Ama divers swimming underwater. Ama divers hold wooden barrels. Japanese workers process the harvested pearls. Man picks pearl from oyster. Pearls lay on cloth. Hand holding a single pearl. A Japanese woman in kimono holding pearls. Another Japanese woman, in Western clothing, shows off her pearl necklace.