Retro Japan

Author: peter Date: 14 November, Category: Educative, Visits 8490

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General Kuroki Tamemoto (c.1844–1923) and Prince Kuni Kuniyoshi of the Japanese army at Kwantei Temple during the Battle of Liaoyang, an engagement of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Takenouchi Yasunori, the Japanese commissioner of foreign affairs who led his countrys first diplomatic delegation to Paris, 1862. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The covered shopping street Shijo-Dori (4th street) in Kyoto, Japan, 1905. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A couple in traditional dress admiring the view over the Japanese port city of Kobe from Suwayama, 1905. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Three men in the hills above the Japanese village of Kawauchi, Fukushima, circa 1905. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Traffic and pedestrians in one of Tokyos main streets, circa 1905. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The harbour at Nagasaki, Japan, circa 1920. A Christian church can be seen in the foreground. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Tokyo Station in Japan, circa 1920. The major rail terminal was designed by architect Tatsuno Kingo (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Japanese schoolchildren on parade, celebrating the enthronement of the new Emperor and the birth of a new Empire. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). 1935

A group of Japanese schoolgirls marching in formation during a school visit to the third regiment to experience the soldiers way of life. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). Circa 1938

Japanese farm workers use nets to catch small fish in one of the irrigation channels of a rice field, northern Japan, 1932. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Pedestrians strolling down shopping street in Ginza district. (Photo by Charles Phelps Cushing/Retrofile/Getty Images). Circa 1930s

Two Japanese women wearing kimonos, bidding an American cruise ship liner bon voyage, Yokohama. (Photo by Charles Phelps Cushing/Retrofile/Getty Images). Circa 1930s

Crowd of women and children waiting for parade, Kobe. (Photo by Charles Phelps Cushing/Retrofile/Getty Images). Circa 1930s

Buddhist pilgrim mother and child wearing traditional costume, begging for donations, Kobe. (Photo by Charles Phelps Cushing/Retrofile/Getty Images). Circa 1930s

A group of young women enjoying a riverside picnic, Japan, 14th January 1933. Two are in traditional dress, while the others are wearing western fashions. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Two tea-pickers, Japan, circa 1930. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A group of women crossing the Kiyosu Bridge over the Sumida River in Tokyo, circa 1935. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Younger and older samurais at a pageant in Japan, between the two World Wars, circa 1930. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A farmer ploughs rice fields under Mount Fujiyama, [The Gate Of Heaven] in Japan. The mountain will provide the water necessary for the crop. (Photo by Evans/Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1950

A stall selling fish at a market in Shinjuku, Tokyo. (Photo by Orlando /Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1955

A group of men who work around the canals of Tokyo and Yokohama meet for a late evening snack. (Photo by Orlando /Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1950

A Shinto priest at the torii (gate) of Itsukushima Shrine at low tide on Itsukushima Island, Japan, circa 1955. (Photo by Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A woman carries a baby past a new block of flats in Hiroshima, Japan, circa 1955. Virtually all the citys old housing was destroyed in the atomic bomb attack of 1945. (Photo by Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Two young girls in Kimonos in a street near the almost completed Tokyo Tower, July 1958. The tower is a TV and radio broadcasting antenna as well as a tourist attraction. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Rice being symbolically planted in a paddy field during a traditional annual rice festival in Osaka, Japan, circa 1955. (Photo by Evans/Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A woman, in traditional dress of kimono and platform shoes, boards a bus, Japan, circa 1950. (Photo by Frederick L. Hamilton/Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A female shoeshine in the Ginza district of Tokyo, circa 1955. (Photo by Orlando/Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A female bus conductor in Tokyo, circa 1955. (Photo by Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A pachinko parlor in Shinjuku, Tokyo, circa 1955. (Photo by Orlando/Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Pedestrians in Tokyos Ginza district, circa 1950. (Photo by Evans/Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The bridegroom sits between his two go-betweens at a Japanese shrine, where his wedding will soon take place, circa 1955. (Photo by Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Platform attendants squeeze as many commuters as possible onto the trains on the Tokyo underground. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 28th April 1972

[Pushers] at work on Tokyos Shinjuku station in the rush hour, December 1967. They are employed to pack as many passengers as possible into the carriages. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A [Peace Bridge] in Hiroshima, Japan with railings designed by Japanese-American architect Isamu Noguchi, circa 1960. (Photo by Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A passenger in traditional dress on board a Japanese hikari shinkansen – a type of bullet train, circa 1965. (Photo by Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Passengers in the second class coach of a Hikari Train in Japan, circa 1965. (Photo by Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A small child clambers over its mother as she and a friend lie reading magazines in a park, Japan, circa 1965. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Weekend fishermen from Tokyo fishing for ocean bonitos, Japan, circa 1960. (Photo by Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Japanese fishing boats on the Nagara river, April 1963. The fishermen use trained cormorants to catch ayu, a type of river smelt. (Photo by Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Two clown/musicians advertising a brand of toothpaste in Kyoto, Japan, circa 1960. They are carrying traditional drums and a three-stringed shamisen. (Photo by Bailey/Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Art students gather round the moat of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, with their easels, circa 1960. Their paintings will be judged at the end of the summer, and the winners will be awarded diplomas. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

An old lady and her grandson leave the photographers studio in Nagasaki where the little boy has just had his portrait taken, circa 1960. (Photo by Claude Jacoby/Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

P.S. A few cute Japanese music videos 60s can be seen here in my blog.

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