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This stuff is pure gold. Or bacon.Japanese media minded how Japan looked to the western media in 1940.
This is same even today. What they need will be confidence as an independent people.
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Source: Press Photos (March 1941)
Interesting. I have a Canon IIB that we brought back from Tokyo in 1950. This was when Canon was still copying the Leica 35 mm cameras. Also have an all aluminum riveted aluminum trunk that was made by Mitsubishi, I think.I know the twin-lens reflex cameras as well as Leica-type ones were popular in the postwar Japan but did not know so much as these pictures.
Nationwide scenes on a day dated November 3, 1955.
At the photography event in Sendai for Keiko Takahashi - Japanese representative for Miss Universe in 1955.
This girl is not Keiko.
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This is Keiko Takahashi.
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Event in Tokyo with unknown models
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In Shiga, near Kyoto
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In Osaka
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Source: Photo Record of November 3 (1956)
This is my TLR camera built by former Nakajima Aircraft's Musashi Plant in 1950
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Thanks for sharing an interesting story, manta.Interesting. I have a Canon IIB that we brought back from Tokyo in 1950. This was when Canon was still copying the Leica 35 mm cameras. Also have an all aluminum riveted aluminum trunk that was made by Mitsubishi, I think.
At the end of the war there were remaining stocks of raw material such as sheet aluminum so it was used to build items for sale so that income could be generated for their workers. I will take a photo of that trunk and post it.
Thank you, nuuuman. There are 2 classic views of Mt. Fuji- one across Lake Hakone and the other across Lake Kawaguchi (this is the latter.That's a stunning photo, Manta!
Thank you, nuuuman. There are 2 classic views of Mt. Fuji- one across Lake Hakone and the other across Lake Kawaguchi (this is the latter.
Living in Japan right after the war was a unique experience; when my Dad told us that we would be moving to Japan in 1947 and that we would have 2 maids and a cook, I asked "Won't they poison us?"; I was 9 years old. Quite the contrary, the Japanese people were quite respectful and curious about just who were these people who had defeated them. Japan had been isolated for centuries and this had fostered an attitude of arrogance and an attitude of racial superiority in their population. Once this faded away, the Japanese people assumed a very friendly attitude and I admired their character. We returned to the US in 1950, leaving behind quite a few close Japanese friends who we kept in contact with for 50 years.
I have a whole box of slides from the time we lived there that I may post on Facebook later this week.
OK, here goes-Feel free top post any photos of your experiences here, I'm sure I'm not the only one who would enjoy seeing them.