Photos and Postcards

t-jpc121JPC 121 Vintage World War 2 Japanese accordion-style postcard alum with 79 postcards: military, nobility, temples. M

Price: $350.00

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Original album of 64 photos belonging to a Japanese soldier. Shows military as well as personal life, flooded town. Almost all photos contain captions. No photos missing. M

Price: $290.00

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Original Pre WwII Japanese military photo album. 88 Pictures mostly navy cadets in training and Portraits/ Group photos. On board the Harbin Maru. Many photos taken at the studio H. Ishizawa. No captions and no missing photos. Three pages seperated but present. M

Price: $290.00

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Three Japanese student diaries dating between 1937 and 1940 for a military academy preparatory school as well as the military academy. They belonged to former IJA Lieutenant Masakazu Shimizu. Diary 1: November 24, 1937 – May 2, 1938. Diary 2: May 3 – August 18, 1938. Diary 3: May 14 – September 3, 1940. Lieutenant Shimizu was a commander of an aviation reconnaissance battalion in Burma and retired a colonel in the Japanese Self Defense Force in 1974. M

Price: $200.00

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16 vintage postcards of Rikishi sumo wrestling. One postcard damaged. M

Price: $300.00

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Original photo of Nora Ingham in Japanese dress. Photographed in Magdeburg Germany in 1908. Size 13.5x7.5cm. M

Price: $40.00

t-pto323PTO323t-pto323aPTO323Photo album belonging to Corporal Jim Redonda, who served with Company C the 8235th Signal Service Battalion based in Camp Drake, near Osaka, in 1953. The album begins in his base in Washington State, his voyage to Japan aboard the General Sherman, life at Camp Drake, with local people, troops embarking for Pusan, Japanese army base, parade of Japanese soldiers during Japanese armed forces day October 1 1955, Captain Jun Kishima with the 1st Infantry Division at Camp Nerima, school children visiting the Imperial Palace.

A nice album as it reflects the strong bond of friendship between Jim Redonda and Junji Kishima. The album goes on into the 1960’s and is focused on the Redondas Japanese friends whom they continued to remain close with. The album is well captioned and dated and there are more than 150 photos. M

Price: $110.00

Note: The camp was originally built for the Japanese army. It was the home of the 1st Cavalry Division and was abandoned in the 1970’s and is overgrown by the surrounding jungle. To see what Camp Drake looks like today click here: http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2010/08/relics-of-camp-drake-in-saitama-japan/#sthash.kTeEQN87.dpbs

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Yearbook with photo images from the Miyagi-ken High School. There are 26 pages of photos, 5 pages of messages from students and 6 pages of addresses. Each photo has an imprinted caption. A nice research piece as all photos captioned and there are personal messages from students. I can’t read the dates but appears to be World War 2 period. Complete and in good condition. M

Price: $400.00

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A military photo album from Japan in the 1930’s with nice clean images. Mostly military, one of Emperor Hirohito on horseback, senior as well as junior officers. There are a few pages at the end of a group outing of a Japanese club, showing their club flag. No captions but the military units are holding signs which no doubt indicate the unit they are attached to. 55 photos in all and the album appears complete in every sense. A clean and sturdy album. M

Price: $500.00

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Photo album belonging to an officer in command of a platoon of military police with the 1st Cavalry Division in Occupied Japan, specifically at Hiratsuka City in Kanagawa Prefecture. View of the camp, Hiratsuka City, the beach area, Segama Bay, Nagia beach, Kamakura beach, Chigasaki beach, Japanese train and cargo ship, several soldiers mentioned by name. interesting photo of MP standing beside a sign that reads ‘No Public Display of Affection’, Japanese locals, shoeshine boy, ‘a negro baby with a Japanese woman’, the navy club at Yokosuka, young Japanese mascot name ‘Pauncho’ dressed in a child’s military uniform, t-jpc107bJPC 107war damage at Yokahama, gruesome photo of a dead Japanese soldier holding a straight razor with his throat cut and caption readst-jpc107cJPC 107 ‘I saw this Jap cut his throat’. Distant photos of the 1st Cavalry Division on parade in Tokyo (the first US unit to enter Tokyo), and some photos of US personnel on horseback (the last of the 1st Cavalry Division's mounted units permanently retired their horses and converted to infantry formations on 28 February 1943)

The officer was senior as he has a photo of his assistant. There are 72 photos as well as two pieces of Japanese currency. The album is complete with only two photos missing that appear to have fallen out. All photos are hinged and with captions. t-jpc107dJPC 107The cover board has separated but otherwise a strong crisp album. M

Price: $690.00

Note:t-jpc107eJPC 107 The 1st Cavalry Division ("First Team”) is one of the most decorated combat divisions of the United States Army, as well as the other four branches of the U.S. military. As the war ended the division left Luzon 25 August 1945 for occupation duty in Japan, arriving in Yokohama 2 September 1945 and entering Tokyo 8 September, the first United States division to enter the Japanese capital. 101 unit was set up in May 1945 to search for the missing soldiers in the Second World War II. The detachment consisted of 17 people, three of them officers: t-jpc107fJPC 107Captain MacColeman, Lieutenant Foley and Sergeant Ryan. The operation was successful, although it lasted three years. Occupation duty in Japan followed for the next five years. t-jpc107gJPC 107During the war the Division lost 734 killed in action, 3,311 wounded in action and 236 died of wounds.

After the war, General Douglas MacArthur, the chief commander of Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers for the Occupation of Japan, landed in Kanagawa, before moving to other areas. U.S. military bases still remain in Kanagawa, including Camp Zama (Army), Yokosuka Naval Base,Naval Air Station Atsugi (Navy).

Although instances of rape by US forces in Occupied Japan, there were problems in Hiratsuka City, t-jpc107hJPC 107t-jpc107iJPC 107as noted in Japan's Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution During World War II, by Toshiyuki Tanaka

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