• Look at the past: A 1945 photo by by Gaetano Faillace shows the building of Hattori Tokei-ten (K. Hattori & Co. — the predecessor of Seiko Holding Corp.), requisitioned for use as a U.S. military commissary, at the Ginza 4-chome intersection.
    Look at the past: A 1945 photo by by Gaetano Faillace shows the building of Hattori Tokei-ten (K. Hattori & Co. — the predecessor of Seiko Holding Corp.), requisitioned for use as a U.S. military commissary, at the Ginza 4-chome intersection.
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The 10 years following the end of World War II in Tokyo are marked by two things — war-related devastation and the march toward reconstruction.

The exhibition “Tokyo Fukko” (“Reconstruction of Tokyo”) at the Edo-Tokyo Museum captures this period of Tokyo’s history through color photographs and movies, with many of the items being shown publicly for the first time.

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