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Category: Japanese history

June 5, 2017November 19, 2018 Clark Parker

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

November 2, 2016November 10, 2018 Clark Parker

Old Ryogoku Kokugikan 旧両国国技館

April 16, 2016September 6, 2016 Clark Parker

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

January 15, 2016September 4, 2018 Clark Parker

Prison camps and speedboat races 大森捕虜収容所

October 9, 2015March 21, 2017 Clark Parker

Hokkaido’s Frontier Days: Bannei Horse Racing

September 29, 2015October 7, 2018 Clark Parker

Graf Zeppelin in Japan, 1929 グラーフ・ツェッペリン

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Day and night: beauty falls on Tokyo (Marugen, Ginza)
Mt. Fuji, the neon pachinko experience パチンコふじ
Films of 1950's and 1960's Japan, via an old Dutch man

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