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British-made steam locomotive, made 1923, on display in Saitama

SAITAMA, Japan - The British-made team locomotive ED17 (front) and four other historic railway cars on display at the Railways Fair held at East Japan Railway Co.'s Omiya railroad stock center in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, on May 26. The locomotive, manufactured in 1923, was used on the Tokaido Line from the Taisho era (1912-1926) to the early Showa era (1926-1989). The ED17 and the other railway equipment will be on permanent display at the new Railways Museum, which will open in Saitama on Oct. 14.

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Yoshiwara red-light district

TOKYO, Japan - The file photo shows Yoshiwara, Japan's largest licensed red-light district until prostitution was banned in 1957, located in Tokyo. The Taisho-period (1912-1926) photo was taken before the Great Kanto Earthquake struck areas in and around Tokyo in 1923.

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Rakutenchi Entertainment Complex, Sennichimae, Osaka, Japan

Rakutenchi Entertainment Complex / Amusement Park, Sennichimae (Sennichimaye), Osaka, Japan - popular shopping street/district. During the Taisho era (1912-1926), Rakutenchi was one of Osaka's most fashionable and well-known entertainment destinations. Rakutenchi featured theatres, entertainment and all kinds of other leisure outlets and did business between 1914 and 1930. Date: circa 1930s

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Restored garden at Kanazawa Castle Park unveiled to media

A restored garden at Kanazawa Castle Park in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, is unveiled to the media on March 6, 2015. The Ishikawa prefectural government restored the garden, landfilled during the 1912-1926 Taisho era, with the hope of making it a new attraction ahead of the March 14 opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train line linking Tokyo and Kanazawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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British-made steam locomotive, made 1923, on display in Saitama

SAITAMA, Japan - The British-made team locomotive ED17 (front) and four other historic railway cars on display at the Railways Fair held at East Japan Railway Co.'s Omiya railroad stock center in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, on May 26. The locomotive, manufactured in 1923, was used on the Tokaido Line from the Taisho era (1912-1926) to the early Showa era (1926-1989). The ED17 and the other railway equipment will be on permanent display at the new Railways Museum, which will open in Saitama on Oct. 14. (Kyodo)

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Yoshiwara red-light district

TOKYO, Japan - The file photo shows Yoshiwara, Japan's largest licensed red-light district until prostitution was banned in 1957, located in Tokyo. The Taisho-period (1912-1926) photo was taken before the Great Kanto Earthquake struck areas in and around Tokyo in 1923. (Kyodo)

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Satake Garden,Mukojima

Called Koyoen, the garden of the Akita Clan Satake family opened to the public in the mid-Meiji Period and gained fame as one of the most beautiful gardens of the former Edo. However, in 1903 it became the possession of Sapporo Brewery Company, which established its Azuma-bashi factory nearby and used the remainder of the garden as a beer garden where customers could enjoy the product of the brewery. In 1906, the facility became the Dai Nippon Brewery Company Azuma Factory, and the garden disappeared in the wake of factory expansions during the Taisho Period (1912-1926) and the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. Today, a few trees and an explanation panel next to the Sumida Ward Hall are the only reminders of the former garden.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number85‐9‐0]