Occupied Japan 1945 - 1952: Gender, Class, Race
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Occupied Japan 1945 - 1952: Gender, Class, Race

Procession of Imperial Wedding

"Half a million people lined on the afternoon of April 10, 1959, the route of the Imperial wedding procession as the famous bride and bridegroom in all Japanese history paraded before their future subjects in a horse-drawn carriage."
From: Kōtaishi Denka Shōda (Commemoration of the Crown Prince’s Wedding). Tokyo: International Cultural Pictorial, Special Edition, 1959.

 

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