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Marine flamethrowing Sherman tanks set fire to Japanese aircraft in Sasebo, Japan, on November 2, 1945. Sasebo is a core city located in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It is also the second largest city in Nagasaki Prefecture, after its capital, Nagasaki. The city which had 206,000 inhabitants in 1945 suffered severe damage by bombing on June 29, 1945 during World War II and was destroyed by 48%. Sasebo was one of the original 17 targets selected for the dropping of the atomic bomb. After the end of the war, part of the base facilities were taken over by the United States Navy, forming U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo.Source :
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View from above of atomic bomb damage to the city of Hiroshima in the Chugoku region of Honshu, Japan in June 1946. On 6th August 1945, during World War II, the atomic bomb 'Little Boy' was dropped on Hiroshima and detonated 600 metres above the city centre causing enormous damage to the city's infrastructure.Source :
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Emperor Hirohito of Japan and his Empress pictured in the Imperial Garden, Tokyo, 1946.
Hirohito (29 April 1901 - 7 January 1989) was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession. He reigned as the emperor of the Empire of Japan from 25 December 1926 until 2 May 1947 and of the state of Japan from 3 May 1947 until his death on 7 January 1989. He was succeeded by his fifth child and eldest son, Akihito. Hirohito and his wife, Empress Kojun, had seven children, two sons and five daughters. In Japan, reigning emperors are known only as "the Emperor." He is now referred to primarily by his posthumous name, Shōwa, which is the name of the era coinciding with his reign; for this reason, he is also known as the Shōwa Emperor or Emperor Shōwa. By 1979, Hirohito was the only monarch in the world with the monarchical title "emperor." Hirohito was the longest-lived and longest-reigning historical Japanese emperor and one of the longest-reigning monarchs in the world.
At the start of his reign, Japan was already one of the great powers - the ninth largest economy in the world, the third-largest naval power, and one of the four permanent members of the council of the League of Nations. He was the head of state under the Constitution of the Empire of Japan during Japan's imperial expansion, militarization, and involvement in World War II. After Japan's surrender, he was not prosecuted for war crimes as many other leading government figures were. His degree of involvement in wartime decisions remains controversial. During the post-war period, he became the symbol of the state of Japan under the post-war constitution and Japan's recovery. By the end of his reign, Japan had emerged as the world's second-largest economy.
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Nikko Toscho-gu, a color slide from a doctor on a eastern Asian trip, 1941A german doctor enjoyed a trip to eastern Asia (Japan - Korea - China) in 1941. No color photography was available in Japan at the time (except for rare imported Kodak), so thanks to these travelers we can view Japan of the time in the original color. The doctor used Kodachrome instead of Agfacolor. Nikko has long been one of the top sightseeing places in Japan, like Kyoto, Hakone and Karuizawa. This shrine, Tosho-gu, is dedicated to Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate. It was initially built in 1617, during the Edo period, while Ieyasu's son Hidetada was shōgun. For more information, read on from Wikipedia.
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