Wooden houses and buildings in Kyoto, Japan after World War II. Kyoto as seen from the roof of the Daimaru Department Store. Neatly and closely packed wooden houses. A modern-three story concrete building around which are built small wooden houses. More modern buildings as well as typical wood structures. Large chimneys of houses, roof tops and tree lined streets. Shijo Street shows modern brick and concrete structures two to seven floors high. Roof-tops of the houses. A modern five-story building. A view over the tops of the wooden houses. A very narrow street with tightly packed wooden houses on both sides of the street. Shijo Street shows modern buildings as well as typical wooden structures.
A view of Shijo Street in Kyoto, Japan. A view from the top of Daimaru Department Store (600-8511 Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto-shi Shijo-dori Takakura 79, Tachiurinishimachi, Nishi-iru) shows trolley cars and pedestrians along Shijo Street. Contrast between Japanese-type houses and modern concrete buildings along Shijo Street. Japanese laborers work on trolley car tracks. In the background there are two and three-story buildings. Two Japanese women work on a kimono which is stretched between two trees. The women remove the stitches and place pliable wood splints across the width. They clean the kimono with a substance.
An aerial view of Kyoto, Japan. The aerial view of Kyoto taken from approximately 2000 feet height. The view shows tightly packed Japanese houses.
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.
Firefighting equipment at a steel mill and oil refinery in Otaka, Japan. A reinforced concrete shelter is used to protect the fire fighting equipment at the steel mill. The fire fighting equipment being towed out of its underground revetment at the oil refinery. A Japanese worker removes human excrement from a out house for use as fertilizer. Grain being weighed and measured by merchant in Kyoto. People in a line wait for their ration of grains. A wagonsmiths shop in Kyoto.
Japanese Military Police acts to control black market activities in Kyoto, Japan. Japanese civilians, two men and a child and a member of the United States occupation force in Japan checked and arrested after being caught doing an illegal transaction.
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