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GHQ photographer's color shots offer rare insights on postwar Japan

The area around Nagoya Station is seen in a photo taken in the late 1940s by Robert V. Mosier, who worked for the General Headquarters. | NATIONAL DIET LIBRARY

Chunichi Shimbun

Dec 25, 2017

The National Diet Library in Tokyo caught attention this autumn when it published color photos taken immediately after the end of World War II by a staffer at the General Headquarters (GHQ).

The images, taken by the staffer at the central secretariat of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers who was stationed in Japan after the war, are among very few color photos of Japan that remain from that period.

Experts believe the photographs are "important materials that show how (Japan) began rebuilding itself after the war."

GHQ photographer's color shots offer rare insights on postwar Japan

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