After World War 2, Japanese people in post-war, poverty stricken Japan scavenge for resources and food amidst shortages and rationing. In Tokyo: Japanese children work in ruins of a bath house near a group of miner's houses in the Higashi Misome Mine area. Children working to pick up pieces of tile which they have loosened with a hammer and an iron bar. Two children's hands seen working with a hammer and a tile. Two boys in a wrecked bath tub chiseling a tile. Two boys and girls search the debris of the bath house. In Osaka : Japanese women, men and children scrape up corn kernels off a road, which have been spilled there from a passing truck.
Japanese people on a street in Kyoto, Japan. A narrow street. People shop near buildings. People walk along a street in the outskirts of Kyoto near a river. People ride on bicycles. A car driven on a road.
Japanese people near stations in Japan. In Osaka : people on a street. People at a station. Two men talk. People wait for streetcars. People load the streetcars in front of the station. People walk around at the station. In Tokyo : people wait for trains and walk along streets.
A market place in Japan. Clothes in a garment shop. People in their shops. A fisherman weighs fish on a balance. A man near a machine. A woman stands near a table of packed bottles. Oranges on a table in a market. A crowded market. A butcher cuts meat in a meat shop. A woman sells newspapers. People buy the newspapers.
Kyoto Imperial Palace and a market place in Japan. A large group of 3rd grade school children march through the grounds of Kyoto Imperial Palace. Children stop to pick flowers and rest. In Kobe: Japanese people pass through a shop area. A narrow street and newly erected shops in temporary buildings in Japanese market area.
Street activities in Kyoto, Japan. Markets and an amusement arcade including early Pachinko machines. People operate penny arcades. People in an open air market. People near a cobbler shop. People buy from shops. They walk on a sidewalk. Street trams passing by. Women in kimonos.
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