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Annie in Japan 日本でのミュージカル『アニー』

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Void if invaded: the Hawaii overprint note

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Tokyo neighborhood sketch: Kinshicho 錦糸町

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Mizonokuchi night / day 溝の口・夜も昼も

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Shinjuku Koban (Police Box) 四谷警察署 追分交番

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the absence of house is the essence of house (Hyperart Thomassons)

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Danchi in film 映画における団地, Part I: 1958-1980

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Japan’s Women Police, 1946 and beyond 日本の女性警察官

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One man’s ロッチ is another man’s ロッテ: COSMOS and the “Lotchi incident” ロッチ騒動

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Be thee small, thy manufacturers of Japan

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Old Ryogoku Kokugikan 旧両国国技館

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Expansion of Metropolis around 1930s 都市から郊外へ : 1930年代の東京

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Hypnotized by Pythagora’s switch

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How to spot a…Jap???

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Timeless fields of Abiko-shi, Chiba-ken

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Bombing Nagasaki: the scrapbook

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Things random, Vol. 1 ランダムに選択すること Vol.1

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(4) The Dutch in Japan: Hirado and Dejima, Nagasaki

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Nikko is Nippon 日本の光。日光。

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God, love, and war: Hiroshima, Atsugi, Yokohama (not necessarily in that order)

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Waseda Shochiku movie theater 早稲田松竹

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Tokyo transportation and subway museums 東京の交通博物館

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Tokyo crime maps 東京犯罪情報マップ

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Tokyo salarymen (and women) in the rain (Hibiya)

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In Japan, home is where the heart is, for 41.16 years

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I love Yanaka 谷中好きです!

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Colorful Japanese record jackets カラフルな日本のレコードジャケット

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Rainy day in April: Uguisudani

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Prison camps and speedboat races 大森捕虜収容所

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Sazae-san and Sakurashinmachi: Sunday sanpo on the Nomikawa Green Road

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(38) Old course of the Nomikawa 呑川

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Scenes from: An Autumn Afternoon (1962) 秋刀魚の味

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The Pretz / Pocky game (and Japan’s Ally McBeal)

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Tama cemetery is enormous 多磨霊園は膨大です

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“A legend or was it?” 死闘の伝説 (1963) Kinoshita’s film of war

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The darkest road in Yokohama: tunnel of trees 木の横浜のトンネル

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Putting the wheels on my first errand: はじめてのおつかい Hajimete no otsukai

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Made in Occupied Japan: Eikeisha clock (1947-1952)

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Kochi, Japan, from an airplane

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Postcards from Japan

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Okamoto Kiichi (Kodomo no kuni) “Children’s World”

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One Wonderful Sunday (1947) 素晴らしき日曜日

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Cafe dining Kan-KURA カフェダイニング カンクラ

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Hokkaido’s Frontier Days: Bannei Horse Racing

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Hibiya Hall vs. Iwate Prefecture Hall 岩手県公会堂

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Map of Shimonoseki and Moji (Kitakyushu) circa 1914

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Tokyo Sunrise (1967), Tsunehisa Kimura

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Danchi on a sunny afternoon: Saginomiya West Housing 鷺宮西住宅

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Films of 1950’s and 1960’s Japan, via an old Dutch man

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The rise and fall and rise of Asagaya Housing danchi 阿佐ヶ谷住宅

October 26, 2018March 29, 2023 Clark Parker

Matsuyama Station at dusk

October 21, 2018June 3, 2019 Clark Parker

Was Tokyo bombed in WW2?

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Tokyo crime maps 東京犯罪情報マップ
Graf Zeppelin in Japan, 1929 グラーフ・ツェッペリン
Hypnotized by Pythagora's switch
Shinjuku Koban (Police Box) 四谷警察署 追分交番
(4) The Dutch in Japan: Hirado and Dejima, Nagasaki
Tokyo transportation and subway museums 東京の交通博物館
Map of American occupied Tokyo, 1948 GHQ東京占領地図
Japan's Women Police, 1946 and beyond 日本の女性警察官

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