Emperor Hirohito visits the grave of his father (Emperor Taisho) following the surrender of Japan at the end of World War 2. View of Mt. Fuji in Japan. Torii gate at the Musashi Imperial Graveyard (1833 Nagabusamachi, Hachioji, Tokyo 193-0824, Japan) in Nagabusa-machi, Hachiōji, Tokyo, Japan. Shinto priests waiting for Emperor Hirohito’s arrival. Emperor Hirohito, wearing a Western semi-civilian court dress, alights from his car and salutes. Shinto priests bow to Emperor Hirohito. Emperor Hirohito and other Japanese officials descend a set of stone stairs. Emperor Hirohito, now posthumously known as the Shōwa Emperor, leaves the Musashi Imperial Graveyard by car.
Japanese women around shacks and shanties in Tokyo, Japan. Monuments at a cemetery in Tokyo. Tin shack constructed from scrap wood and tin in the background. Japanese girls stand in front of the entrance of a tin shack. A newly constructed shack amidst the ruins of bombed out area. The bombed out area shows typical temporary homes. Women in the foreground wash vegetables. Entrance to a shack shows a woman brewing tea over a charcoal stove. An outdoor treasure vault now used as home. A woman walks from the door of a partly underground shanty to an outdoor faucet.
Lines of Japanese people for ration supplies in Tokyo, Japan immediately after World War II. Japanese housewives, students, business men, children and workers wait in lines for rationed material during time of poverty after war defeat. Rubble from war bombing in the foreground. Little children stand alongside their fathers and mothers. A group of Japanese women stands. Close-up views of faces of dejected and exhausted Japanese citizens.
Construction of a temporary house made of bamboo shows a laborer at work in Yotsuya district of Tokyo, Japan, shortly after the end of World War 2. The laborer mixes mud plaster. He brings out wood shavings and mixes it with mud. He applies the mud plaster to side walls.
Liberation of American prisoners in Tokyo, Japan towards the end of World War II. U.S. personnel wave as LCVPs (Landing Crafts, Vehicle, Personnel) loaded with released American prisoners leave a dock. A Japanese guard on the dock. U.S. Navy F6F Hellcat fighters pass over LCVPs underway. A group of released prisoners of war on the dock waiting for transportation. A crane in the background. Released POWs in an LCVP underway towards hospital ship USS Benevolence (AH-13) anchored off the coast. Litter patients are hoisted aboard USS Benevolence from the LCVP. The LCVP comes alongside, men are assisted aboard USS Benevolence.
Two Japanese repairing horse drawn-wagon. Damage done to telephone building. Completely demolished Asano house. Damage wrought to the ground surrounding the Asano house. Portion of the Asano house left intact. Garden of the Asano house.9 September 1945.