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Oil fields in Akita Prefecture, the north-eastern region of Japan, in the 1930s.
Production occupied about 10% of the total domestic demands while the North Sakhalin's contributed about 3% at best.



Source: "Then and Now of Akita Prefecture - from Tomoki Iwata's photo album (1973)"
 
Japanese color pictures during the wartime.
Probably film was no bad but printing technologies for the publishers.

Sakura (later Konica) color film

Source: Photograph Science (Oct.1944)


Sakura

Source: Japan Photography (May 1944)


Fuji color film

Source: Japan Photography (June 1944)
 

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