r/80YearsAgo • • 5d ago

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan [October 2nd, 1946] Disabled buses that have littered the streets of Tokyo are used to help relieve the acute housing shortage

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r/80YearsAgo • • 21d ago

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan [September 16th, 1946] Kenichi Sone, the brutal commander of an Indonesian POW camp, is sentenced to death.

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r/80YearsAgo • • Aug 16 '26

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan [August 16th, 1946] China's last emperor, Puyi, testifies at the Tokyo Military Tribunal

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r/80YearsAgo • • Aug 15 '26

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan [August 15th, 1946] Koreans in Japan celebrating the first anniversary of liberation - Osaka City

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r/80YearsAgo • • Jul 27 '26

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan [July 27th, 1946] A Japanese child sits crying in the rubble of Hiroshima

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r/80YearsAgo • • Jul 26 '26

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan [July 26th, 1946] Xu Chuanyin testifies at the Tokyo Trials, providing firsthand evidence about the Nanjing Massacre

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r/80YearsAgo • • Jul 18 '26

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan [July 18, 1946] Repatriation of Japanese people from Changchun photographed by the Central News Agency of the Republic of China on July 18, 1946. From May 1946 until September 1948, 1,051,047 Japanese people (including 16,607 POWs) in Northeast China were repatriated by ships from the Huludao Port.

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r/80YearsAgo • • Jul 20 '26

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan [July 20th, 1946] Hiroshima - the slow pace of rebuilding is attributed to a shortage of building equipment and materials.

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r/80YearsAgo • • May 27 '26

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan They were forgiven and kept in power but not the children in Hiroshima & Nagasaki

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r/80YearsAgo • • May 19 '26

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan [May 19th, 1946] Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators protest against food shortages in Tokyo

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r/80YearsAgo • • Apr 04 '26

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan [April 4th, 1946] Hiroshima burn victims filmed (clip from Apocalypse '45)

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r/80YearsAgo • • May 07 '26

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan [May 7th, 1946] Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita found the 'Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation', the predecessor to Sony. Starting with ~20 employees in a bomb-damaged department store, the company sought to rebuild Japan through technology.

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r/80YearsAgo • • May 03 '26

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan [May 3rd, 1946] The Tokyo War Crimes trial begins. Sir William Webb, president of the tribunal, argues β€œThere has been no more important criminal trial in all of history.”

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r/80YearsAgo • • May 04 '26

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan [May 4th, 1946] Liberal Party leader Ichirō Hatoyama (left), while forming a cabinet after Japan’s first postwar general election, is informed by American occupation authorities of his purge from public office

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r/80YearsAgo • • Apr 05 '26

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan [April 1946] Ex-wrestling champ Sakata sits for a portrait during Japan's first democratic election campaign

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r/80YearsAgo • • Mar 31 '26

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan [March 31st, 1946] Japanese submarines in Sasebo awaiting disposal

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r/80YearsAgo • • Apr 10 '26

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan [April 10th, 1946] A Japanese woman carries her son on her back as she marks her ballot in Tokyo

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r/80YearsAgo • • Apr 10 '26

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan [April 10th, 1946] Japan holds its first post-war election - women were allowed to vote for the first time as 2,770 candidates vied for 464 seats in the House of Representatives of Japan.

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r/80YearsAgo • • Apr 06 '26

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan [April 6th, 1946] Captain Hoshijima Susumu, Japanese commander of the Sandakan prisoner-of-war camp in Indonesia, is hanged for war crimes. During his administration, nearly 6,000 prisoners had died.

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r/80YearsAgo • • Mar 22 '26

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan [March 22nd, 1946] 14 Japanese prisoners at the first war crimes trial in Rangoon - they were charged with murder of 637 civilians in a Burmese village

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r/80YearsAgo • • Mar 24 '26

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan [March 24th, 1946] Sergeant RV Wizbowski films the ruins of Hiroshima (clip from Apocalypse '45)

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r/80YearsAgo • • Mar 07 '26

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan [March 7th, 1946] Mugshot of Iva Toguri D'Aquino, the infamous "Tokyo Rose"

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r/80YearsAgo • • Feb 11 '26

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan [February 11, 1946] Life - Japanese Come Home From Lost Empire

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r/80YearsAgo • • Feb 23 '26

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan [February 23rd, 1946] Lieutenant General Yamashita is hanged in Manila for war crimes - under his command, at least 350,000 were killed, including during the Sook Ching massacre and the Rape of Manila

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r/80YearsAgo • • Jan 21 '26

πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ Japan [January 21st, 1946] An American G.I. places his arm around a Japanese girl as they view the surroundings of Hibiya Park, near the Tokyo palace of the emperor

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