Building “Greater” Japan, 1890-1905
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Homeless man sleeping on a sidewalk of the Asakusa district of Tokyo in the Fall of 2007.
1968 Nobel Prize Winners
Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata, winner of the 1968 nobel prize in literature, pictured with other honorees from 1968.
Japanese classroom in 1920
This 1920 photograph captures students using an abacus to make calculations.
Mass Exercises
Children exercising as a group to commemorate the mythical 2,600th anniverary of the "birth of Japan."
Minamata Disease Protest
Protesters in 1992 marching to support court proceedings against the Chisso Corporation, who caused mercury poisoning in Minamata, Kyushu through dumping industrial waste in the 1950s.
Pearl Harbor Attack
Photograph of US naval ship USS West Virginia being sunk by Japanese airplanes on Dec. 7, 1941.
Sarin Gas Attack Cleanup
In March 20, 1995, the apocalyptic Aum Shinrikyo cult unleashed a terrorist poison gas attack on the Tokyo subway during the Monday morning rush hour commute. This picture shows the decontamination of a subway car.
Shinkansen
Emblematic picture of a shinkansen ("bullet train") passing in front of a Buddhist temple in 1966.
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