Japanese Imperial interests prior to World War II. People gather at the Chrysanthemum Show in Tokyo. They watch the flower plants. Children walk.
Street scenes in Tokyo. Women walk on the street. Pinwheels, paper flowers, and mini umbrellas adorn a flowerpot on the street. Japanese women wearing kimono turns to look at the camera behind them. People step inside a building. Some people seated on benches along the sides of a street. Houses and trees. People walk.
Japanese Imperial interests prior to World War II. People gather in the Ueno Park in Tokyo for Sakura cherry blossom viewing (Hanami). The five-storied pagoda of the Kan’ei-ji Buddhist temple inside Ueno Park. Intensely pink cherry blossom trees in full bloom partially obscure the view of the pagoda. Crowds gathered watch the cherry blossoms. Crowds of people walk in the park. Women in kimono strolling the park. People climb stone stairs at the park.
Front entrance of the Academy of Oriental Culture Tokyo Institute. The Academy of Oriental Culture building with two Chinese guardian lions or shishi (stone lions) flanking the entrance. The Toa Dobunkai Foundation Japanese Society of Cultural Work for China building (1 Sannencho, Kojimachi-ku Tokyo Japan) designed by Shinichiro Okada in Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese-run Tung Wen College or Toa Dobun Shoin Hongqiao Road School Building in Shanghai, China. Entrance to the Sino-Japanese Educational Association. The main building of the Dojinkai or Japanese Society for Welfare Work in China. The T’ung Ren Hwei Hangkow Hospital in Wuhan (Hankou), China maintained by the Japanese Dojinkai. The Japanese Hospital, Tsingtao (Qingdao, Shandong, China). Kiang-han Middle School building in Wuhan. A sign in Chinese at the entrance of the Peking Library of Modern Scientific Research in Beijing. View of the Shanghai Science Institute, now the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences - Chinese Academy of Sciences (500 Caobao Rd, Xuhui District, Shanghai, China), designed by Japanese architect Yoshikazu Uchida, at the French Concession, Shanghai.
Aerial view of buildings and tourist attractions in Asakusa District, Tokyo, Japan. Exterior of Matsuya Department Store Building (1-4-1 Hanakawado, Taito-ku, Tokyo 111-0033). Views over Asakusa and Honjo-Ward from the top of Matsuya Department Store, Sumida River and the vehicles on the Kototoi-Bridge over Sumida River of Asakusa Ave., the facilities of Dai-Nippon Beer Company along Sumida River in the background. to Sensō-ji temple (2 Chome-3-1 Asakusa, Taito City, Tokyo 111-0032, Japan) with the five-story pagoda are also seen. The Kototoi-Bridge over Sumida River, the tugboat going down Sumida River and the rope way on the top of Matsuya Department Store. Tourists taking a walk in the Sumida Park at the riverside and boating under the truss bridge of Tobu Railway in Sumida River.
Western tourists visit Meijijingu Shinto Shrine and Ueno Zoological Garden in Tokyo: They stand at the Torii Gate in the precincts on the way to the sanctuary. They see a bear, snake, ape, ducks and swan. Tourists seated at table in zoo. They watch animal. They swing in zoo. Giraffe in a cage. Bactrian camels in zoo.