The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Tokyo, Japan. 11 January 1955. The Christmas New Year period in Japan is known as the "Happy Season". Here Australian soldiers mingle with the crowds thronging the gaily decorated shops and stalls to buy year-end presents for their families and friends. The sign on the right states: There are many rogues in the crowds so if you find one report him to the police.
Asakusa is the principal entertainment and shopping centre of Tokyo outside of the city proper and is a famous tourist attraction. Here two unidentified Australian soldiers mingle with the crowds thro
Tokyo, Japan. 11 January 1955. Australian soldiers mingle with the holiday crowds entering the Asakusa shopping centre. Asakusa is the principal entertainment and shopping centre of Tokyo outside of t
Tokyo, Japan. 11 January 1955. Australian soldiers stop to admire the display of Hagoita at a shop which specialises in them. There are special ornamental specimens of the "battledore" for shuttlecock
A street in a commercial area of Shinjuki, near Tokyo. Plants and other goods are being sold from market stalls and from the footpath outside shops. This image is part of a collection of photographs t
Michael Tisdall (left, in front of the C Deck sign) and Brian John McMullan (right), lean on the rail of the SS Taiping as they hold streamers connected to family members who are farewelling them at
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