Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (5 Viewers)

[SaparotRob]

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)

This stuff is pure gold. Or bacon.

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff shinpachi!

 

[Shinpachi]

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.

This is Keiko Takahashi.

Event in Tokyo with unknown models

In Shiga, near Kyoto

In Osaka

Source: Photo Record of November 3 (1956)

This is my TLR camera built by former Nakajima Aircraft's Musashi Plant in 1950

 

[Wurger]

 

[manta22]

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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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.

 

[Shinpachi]

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.

Thanks for sharing an interesting story, manta.
I believe Canon IIB is still good one but I did not know Mitsubishi built such aluminum trunks

Keiko Takahashi at Miss Universe 1955

Source: KJCLUB - Missユニバース世界大会 日本2回優勝

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

Another scene on the day of November 3, 1955.
Aged veterans of the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War visit the imperial mausoleum for Emperor Meiji, Hirohito's grandfather, in Kyoto. They look indifferent to the modern Japan.

Source: Photo Record of November 3 (1956)

 

[manta22]

Shinpachi, Thank you for the information on the camera. Here is a photo that was taken with it in 1949.

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.

 

[Shinpachi]

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely shots shinpachi!

 

[Shinpachi]

The imperial mausoleum for Emperor Meiji aka Momoyama-goryo in Kyoto

Source: s://www.facebook.com/groups/316930718448577/


Empress Masako visits Musashi-goryo for Hirohito in Tokyo on December 3, 2019

Source: 天皇、皇后両陛下が昭和、大正天皇陵を参拝 即位の礼と大嘗祭終了を報告 ［写真特集6/10］ | 毎日新聞

 

[Shinpachi]

Emperor Nintoku's mausoleum in Osaka built in the mid 5th century.
My ancestor is said engaged in this building as an engineer.

Source: 仁徳天皇陵古墳

 

[Wurger]

 

[nuuumannn]

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.

That's a stunning photo, Manta!

 

[manta22]

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.

 

[nuuumannn]

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.

Feel free top post any photos of your experiences here, I'm sure I'm not the only one who would enjoy seeing them.

 

[manta22]

Feel free top post any photos of your experiences here, I'm sure I'm not the only one who would enjoy seeing them.

OK, here goes-

 

[Shinpachi]

Wow, so many fantastic pics, manta!
Thank you very much for taking time for them
I think the old Imperial Hotel building was moved to the Meiji memorial village near Nagoya City many decades ago.

Source: 博物館明治村 帝国ホテル中央玄関 | レトロな建物を訪ねて

Inside

Source: 帝国ホテルライト館と遠藤新 その2 | 銀座時空散歩

 

[Wurger]