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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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I love Yanaka 谷中好きです!

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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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Etchings from Akutagawa’s “A Fool’s Life”

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Mt. Fuji, the neon pachinko experience パチンコふじ

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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

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Matsuyama Station at dusk

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Was Tokyo bombed in WW2?

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