United States soldiers at the Imperial Palace grounds in Tokyo, Japan. A view from a seventh-floor window of the Meiji Building. A group of American soldiers talks to a few Japanese maidens. An American soldier and a Japanese girl playfully tease each other. The soldiers sit with Japanese girls near the outer most wall of the Imperial Palace grounds (1-1 Chiyoda, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-8111, Japan) in Tokyo. (World War II period).
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.
Construction of new houses in Tokuyama-City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. A new house under construction. A Japanese laborer drills holes through roof slats. The laborer picks up pieces he has drilled holes in and climbs up a step ladder and onto a roof. A middle class house recently constructed shows delicate and extension glass. Paneling for out doors and paper paneling for the inner corridor. Construction of a new Japanese house shows a carpenter using a tool to square lumber. Two workers roofing with bamboo. Construction of another house shows a bamboo thatched roof and in the background another house under construction. A man weaves a bamboo lathe for a house wall which is later to be plastered with mud.
Various houses and a school are under construction in Tokuyama-City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Japanese girls carry lumber to construct school rooms for the Sakuragaoka Girls' High School. Two canvas covered huts used as school rooms and half constructed school building in the background. Newly built middle class Japanese houses. In the background there is a technical school. A Japanese laborer mixes mud and straw in a big wooden container by stomping around in it with his bare feet. Construction of a wooden frame structure. A man sifts sand used in the covering of walls of the houses under construction.
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