December 1939 - Japanese soldiers stationed in occupied China gather around a campfire for warmth. An officer is standing on the left, wearing a field cap and sword. #Japan #China #ww2 #wwII #WorldWar2 #WorldWarII #history

Given that most photos of the Hiroshima bombing are from the air, it's important to remember there were actual photos from the ground that day. Here, survivors line up for relief, dazed and horribly burned. Photos by Yoshito Matsushige. #hiroshima #ww2 #worldwarII #atomicbombs

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Shampoo street art in LA.
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Typical Japanese Army officers of the prewar era. They wear the Type 5 (Shogo) uniform, introduced in 1930, a modified design from an earlier 1911 model. Their swords and peaked caps were standard issue, though younger officers tended to raise the crown in a saddle style.
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Norakuro, a popular comic by Suihō Tagawa which ran from 1931-1941 and starred a stray black dog who joined the Imperial Japanese Army.
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1 April 1931 - Chinese Nationalist soldiers at Taianfu Station. They wear field caps (introduced in 1930), cloth shoes, and big swords called daos. Given the date, these soldiers might have taken part in the "Extermination Campaigns" against the Chinese Kiangsi Soviet. #China #Chinese #history

1933 - Japanese Army officers toast their success in the Chinese provience of Jehol/Rehe as part of Operation Nekka. They wear the ryakubo field cap for the first time, which would become the standard Japanese military cap by the 1940s.
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A 1915 New Year's card depicting a Japanese boy dressed as an Army officer and another as a Navy sailor, surveying the new territories of Tsingato and the South Pacific added to the Japanese Empire during World War I. The rabbits are for the Year of the Rabbit. #Japan #NewYears #history #worldwarI

Christmas time circa 1930s Japan - a boy dressed up Navy admiral welcomes Santa Claus to the Japanese Empire. Christmas was sometimes celebrated in prewar Japan, but it became more popular post World War II.

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December 1931 - Japanese troops of the Kwantung Army pose for a photo with their Arisaka rifles lined up, during the invasion of Manchuria.

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