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1939

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Geisha

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Geisha on roof of a Geisha house overlooking Tokyo.

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Hirohito on his white horse

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Japanese preparing for war in 1937

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Western dressed Japanese woman in 1937

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Burleque in Tokyo in 1939

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Japanese products in a store window in Manchuria in 1939/

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Young factory girls marching to work in 1939. These girls were in an almost military style setting and worked for a few years in order to accumulate a dowery. Most were from poor farming families and made exceptionally low wages, by any standard.

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Factory dormatory for girls. Though it looks like a prison, this is how most larger Japanese textile and other factories treated their yourg woman employees in the 1930's. 1938.

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Training for war with an emphasis on physical fitness. Similar imagery was common in Germany at the same time in 1938.

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Japanese military training 1938

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  These photographs and images are from the Didik collection or are from various national archives and are believed to be in the public domain, as defined under the Berne Convention and/or the U.S. Department of Commerce Copyright office, and/or Japanese Law No. 48 of May 6, 1970, as amended by Laws No. 49 of May 18, 1978, No. 45 of May 19, 1981, No. 78 of December 2, 1983, No. 23 of May 1, 1984, No. 46 of May 25, 1984, No. 62 of June 14, 1985, No. 64 of May 23, 1986, No. 65 of May 23, 1986, No. 87 of November 1, 1988, No. 43 of June 28, 1989, No. 63 of May 2, 1991, No. 106 of December 16, 1992, No. 89 of November 12, 1993, No. 112 of December 14, 1994, and No. 91 of May 12, 1995, Chapter 1, Article 55, unless otherwise noted. Sales of photographs considered to be in the public domain are structured as a research fee with the understanding that the research fee buyer will hold to the contractual provisions as listed under Terms and General Publication Prices. A considerable amount of time, effort and money has been spent locating, purchasing, restoring and cataloging these images and as such, the complication as a total is protected under the provisions of the copyright law and can not be copied in total. On this website, please enjoy viewing the fascinating photographs and images of Japan in the past. To obtain a full sized photograph(s) for publication in a magazine, book, newspaper or simply for your personal collection, we will be happy to provide you with the best possible copy of the photograph that we have on file based on our fee schedule listed under Terms and General Publication Prices. Thank you for you for your interest and your understanding. Please note that we are in the process of vastly expanding this photographic section and we expect to have over 75,000 images of all areas of Japan prior to 1939 available on line by the end of the year. Please contact us if we can be of assistance to you. If there is a particular historic area that you wish to have photographs from, we will be happy to research our collection as well as the various private and national collections to assist you in obtaining any image.

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