HOBJ0258 Accession Number: HOBJ0258

Description

Two unidentified Military Police (MP) with the 1st Australian Provost Company BCOF, escort a Japanese civilian seated in the back of a Military Police jeep. A female Japanese Police officer sits next to the driver, while a male Japanese officer (left) helps guard the young man in the back.The group has pulled up near two vehicles on the right of a busy street in Kure. The Military Police have been checking civilian vehicles, probably for contraband. The incident began at a hardware store in Kure and continued along local streets. The tram in the foreground is travelling along its route through the commercial and industrial areas where all signs on the buildings are in Japanese. On the left of the street is a construction site where bamboo scaffolding and barracades surround a multi-storey building. On the right of the street piles of timber or bamboo poles lie on the ground. In the distance a worker is carrying some poles from the building site back across the street.

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Conflicts

• British Commonwealth Occupation Force, 1946-1952 (Japan)