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

Black Market, Nihonbashi, 1945

Open air black market, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Fall 1945. American soldiers appear to the far left. Occupation censors would soon ban photos and written materials indicating American involvement in the black market.
From: Kimura, Ihei. Kimura Ihei no Shōwa (Kimura Ihei’s Showa Japan). Tokyo: Chikuma Shobō, 1990.

 

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