2017/12/25

time traveler - old photos around Japan

Here is a collection of early color photos taken in postwar by GHQ staffers,

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/12/25/national/ghq-photographers-color-shots-offer-rare-insights-postwar-japan/


excerpt:

The National Diet Library in Tokyo caught attention this autumn when it published color photos taken immediately after the end of World War II by a staffer at the General Headquarters (GHQ).


For even older visual history, browse these photos copied from Library of Congress in Washington, DC at the Prints and Photograph room, http://old-japanphotos.wikispaces.com/ (and the companion project for comparison, http://old-koreaphotos.wikispaces.com/ )

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