Life of Japanese women depicted from the start of Emperor Meiji’s reign (Meiji Era- October 23, 1868 to July 30, 1912). Japanese women wearing kimono talk while walking together in the grounds of the Kiyomizu-dera Buddhist temple (294 Kiyomizu, Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto, 605-0862, Japan). A scroll written with Japanese calligraphy. Old Japanese ship in the ocean. Japanese men vote. A Japanese woman cleans floor. Photograph of a prominent Japanese feminist (probably Ichiyo Higuchi). A gathering of traditional Japanese suffragists or feminists wearing kimonos. View of the Tsuda University (2 Chome-1-1 Tsudamachi, Kodaira, Tokyo 187-0025, Japan), a private women's university in Tokyo. Photograph of Tsuda Umeko, educator and founder of Tsuda University. A young Japanese girl boards a ship.
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.
A horse driven carriage escorted by royal guards carrying a Japanese dignitary passes over the Nijubashi Bridge inside the Tokyo Imperial Palace (1-1 Chiyoda, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-8111, Japan) in Japan. A horse-drawn carriage moves inside the grounds of the Tokyo Imperial Palace. Honor guards salute to United states Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Patricia Nixon, as they exit the Imperial Palace in Tokyo after visiting Emperor Hirohito. Vice President Nixon and Pat Nixon enter a waiting a car, during their stop in Tokyo on their Far East trip in the fall of 1953.
Fires and earthquake in Niigata, Japan. Electric poles broken and heavy destruction caused after earthquake in Japan. Showa Shell Sekiyu oil depot catches fire. Huge clouds of smoke arise from depot. Train compartments burn near the railway track. People take refuge in city parks. 1964 Niigata earthquake damage shows tilted houses and buildings destroyed by liquefaction. Workers dig and use shovels. People lined up for drinking water and rations. Children and old women sitting on the grass at a park.
May Day demonstrations in Tokyo, Japan. Half a million laborers, agrarians and white-collar workers demonstrate in front of the gates of the Imperial Palace (1-1 Chiyoda, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-8111, Japan). People assemble in the Imperial Park. Some protesters hold red banners. Speeches are held in the park. Some cars are driving in the park.
Operation Little Switch repatriation effort (first phase of Operation Big Switch), in which released prisoners of war (POW) from the Korean War are taken from Panmunjom, Korea to Japan, and then to the U.S. Cars carrying released sick and injured prisoners in litters drive towards U.S. Air Force Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter parked at Haneda Army Airbase at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan. Ambulance car backs up towards the aircraft. The U.S. soldiers in stretchers are taken aboard C-97 aircraft by U.S. military medical staff. Men stand in the background and under a wing of the aircraft. An Army General stands by.
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