Japan last century





After World War II, Japan was occupied by US forces that contributed to their environment and the daily lives of many radical innovations. Some supported them, and some do not.

Japan has been completely disarmed and destroyed the empire itself. Today we look at historical pictures of 50s.

Japanese woman in a kimono rotates hula-hoop. In the late 50's there was a boom of hula-hoops.

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Women welcome immigrant soldiers with the ashes of his fellow soldiers.

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American bombers on takeoff toward Korea.

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Sort pearls on a pearl farm.

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Live models tout a new line of swimwear.

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The dining room of the orphanage, the orphanage for 160 children.

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The visit of high-ranking officials in the shop for production of light bulbs.

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International baseball game between the US and Japanese athletes.

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Gift tray in place of the explosion of a nuclear bomb in Hiroshima.

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Exercising on a railway platform Hammamatsu, while parked train from Tokyo to Osaka.

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During the production of lenses at the factory Nikon.

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Pro rally May 1, 1952 escalated into riots, Tokyo.

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Employee studio to finish a model of a warship for the filming of a documentary on the last day of the battleship Yamato.

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The process of shooting.

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Only nine years after the war, the Japanese returned to the island of Iwo Jima.

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The spectators at a baseball game between university teams in Meiji Park in Tokyo.

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Center the night of Tokyo in 1955, the year.

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Fukavaga metropolitan area and hamachi in 1955 year.

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Japanese traditional wooden shoes examines Lincoln's portrait in a bookstore.

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"Pusher" in the metro initially moonlighting students.

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Imagine the year 1960 and at that Japanese women have a portable TV brand Sony.

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The obsession with golf in the postwar years was enormous.

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Mount Fuji from the window of speeding train.

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