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The Great Bell, Hokoji Temple

The Great Bell, Hokoji Temple

The Great Bell, Hokoji Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6884]

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Fushimi Inari Shrine

Fushimi Inari Shrine

Fushimi Inari Shrine==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6889]

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Maruyama Yaami Hotel

Maruyama Yaami Hotel

Maruyama Yaami Hotel==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6876]

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Nishi Otani (Otani Honbyo Mausoleum of Honganji Temple)

Nishi Otani (Otani Honbyo Mausoleum of Honganji Temple)

Nishi Otani (Otani Honbyo Mausoleum of Honganji Temple)==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6883]

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Tsutenbashi bridge at tofukuji temple

Tsutenbashi bridge at tofukuji temple

Tsutenbashi bridge at tofukuji temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6887]

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Sanjusangendo

Sanjusangendo

Sanjusangendo==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6886]

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The stage of Kiyomizudera Temple,Kyoto

The stage of Kiyomizudera Temple,Kyoto

The stage of Kiyomizudera Temple,Kyoto==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6882]

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Nanzenji Temple

Nanzenji Temple

Nanzenji Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6873]

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Hall at Enryakuji Temple, Mt Hiei

Hall at Enryakuji Temple, Mt Hiei

Hall at Enryakuji Temple, Mt Hiei==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6866]

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Higashi Otani (Otani Sobyo Mausoleum of Higashi Honganji Temple)

Higashi Otani (Otani Sobyo Mausoleum of Higashi Honganji Temple)

Higashi Otani (Otani Sobyo Mausoleum of Higashi Honganji Temple)==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6879]

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TOYOKUNI SHRINE

TOYOKUNI SHRINE

TOYOKUNI SHRINE==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6885]

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Sen-yuji temple

Sen-yuji temple

Sen-yuji temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6888]

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Maruyama

Maruyama

Maruyama==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6877]

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Eikan-do Temple

Eikan-do Temple

Eikan-do Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6872]

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Five-Story Pagoda of Yasaka

Five-Story Pagoda of Yasaka

Five-Story Pagoda of Yasaka==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6881]

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Yasaka Shrine, Gion, Kyoto

Yasaka Shrine, Gion, Kyoto

Yasaka Shrine, Gion, Kyoto==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6878]

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Rows of houses seen from Higashiyama,Kyoto

Rows of houses seen from Higashiyama,Kyoto

Rows of houses seen from Higashiyama,Kyoto==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6875]

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Tokugawa Akitake

Tokugawa Akitake

Tokugawa Akitake==Date:1867, Place:Japan, Photo:Other photographers ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7097]

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Koudaiji Temple

Koudaiji Temple

Koudaiji Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6880]

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Foreign man

Foreign man

Foreign man==Date:unknown, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7095]

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Tokugawa Yoshinobu

Tokugawa Yoshinobu

Tokugawa Yoshinobu==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7100]

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Chion-in Temple

Chion-in Temple

Chion-in Temple==Date:c. 1880, Place:Kyoto, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:6874]

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Portrait of a man

Portrait of a man

Portrait of a man==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7101]

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Sanjo Sanetomi

Sanjo Sanetomi

Sanjo Sanetomi==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7099]

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Prince Fushimi Sadanaru

Prince Fushimi Sadanaru

Prince Fushimi Sadanaru==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:Uchida Kuichi ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7102]

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Foreign man

Foreign man

Foreign man==Date:1875, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7096]

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Foreign man

Foreign man

Foreign man==Date:1873, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7093]

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Foreign man

Foreign man

Foreign man==Date:unknown, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:Ueno Hikoma ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7094]

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Tokugawa Iesato ?

Tokugawa Iesato ?

Tokugawa Iesato ?==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:unknown ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7103]

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Portrait of a man

Portrait of a man

Portrait of a man==Date:unknown, Place:Japan, Photo:Kitaniwa Tsukuba ,Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images [Institution Catalog Number:7105]

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New evidence of Japanese germ warfare unit on exhibit

STORY: New evidence of Japanese germ warfare unit on exhibit DATELINE: June 3, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:43 LOCATION: HARBIN, China CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the exhibition 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): SEIYA MATSUNO, Researcher, Int'l Peace Research Institute, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): JIN CHENGMIN, Curator, Museum of Evidence of War Crimes by the Japanese Army Unit 731 4. various of the exhibition STORYLINE: Some documents are on exhibit for the first time in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, testifying crimes against humanity by the notorious Japanese germ warfare army known as Unit 731 during World War II. Heilongjiang International University and the Museum of Evidence of War Crimes by the Japanese Army Unit 731 in Harbin, the provincial capital of Heilongjiang, jointly put on the exhibition at the International Peace Archives at the university on Friday. Among them is a copy of a roster of Unit 731, known for conducting heinous live germ and chemical war

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Kidnapped daughter of 'charismatic' surgeon rescued safely

Kidnapped daughter of 'charismatic' surgeon rescued safely

TOKYO, Japan - Kanako Ikeda (R), 21, a senior at Tokyo's Meiji Gakuin University, leaves Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on June 27 with her mother Yuko (L), a ''charismatic'' cosmetic surgeon, after she was kidnapped June 26 by men who, according to police, demanded 300 million yen in ransom and rescued June 27.

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Event to mark Russell-Einstein Manifesto's 60th anniversary

Event to mark Russell-Einstein Manifesto's 60th anniversary

Takao Takahara, a professor at Meiji Gakuin University, speaks during a ceremony at the exhibition hall of Fukuryu Mmaru No.5, a trawler exposed to radioactive fallout from a 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb test on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, in Yumenoshima Park in Tokyo on July 5, 2015, to mark the 60th anniversary of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto issued against weapons of mass destruction. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Playing cards in tsunami-hit town written in local dialect

Playing cards in tsunami-hit town written in local dialect

Photo taken on Sept. 15, 2015, shows playing cards written in the dialect of the Kirikiri district of Otsuchi in Iwate Prefecture. The cards of the northeastern Japan area, ravaged by the 2011 earthquake and ensuing tsunami, were made by Meiji Gakuin University students to help hand down the dialect to the next generation and were adopted by a local school as an educational tool. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kidnappers of famous cosmetic surgeon's daughter arrested

Kidnappers of famous cosmetic surgeon's daughter arrested

TOKYO, Japan - A car carrying Choi Gi Ho, 54, a South Korean national arrested for alleged kidnapping of the daughter of a well-known cosmetic surgeon, leaves Tokyo's Shibuya Police Station on June 27. The victim, Kanako Ikeda, 21, a senior at Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo, was rescued unharmed in early morning of June 27. (Kyodo)

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Kidnapped daughter of 'charismatic' surgeon rescued safely

Kidnapped daughter of 'charismatic' surgeon rescued safely

TOKYO, Japan - Kanako Ikeda (R), 21, a senior at Tokyo's Meiji Gakuin University, responds to questions from reporters at Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on June 27 after she was kidnapped by men who, police said, demanded 300 million yen in ransom and rescued June 27. (Kyodo)

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Kidnapped daughter of 'charismatic' surgeon rescued safely

Kidnapped daughter of 'charismatic' surgeon rescued safely

TOKYO, Japan - Kanako Ikeda (R), 21, a senior at Tokyo's Meiji Gakuin University, leaves Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on June 27 with her mother Yuko (L), a ''charismatic'' cosmetic surgeon, after she was kidnapped June 26 by men who, according to police, demanded 300 million yen in ransom and rescued June 27. (Kyodo)

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View in front of the gate of katase ryukoji temple

View in front of the gate of katase ryukoji temple

Jyakukozan Ryukoji Temple. Nichiren was arrested in Ankokuronji at Nagoe for interrogation by the regent Hojo Tokimune. He came to Ryunokuchi and prayed facing south at midnight, and is said to have been saved from beheading by miracles. This is the so-called Honan of Ryunokuchi , and Ryukoji Temple was built there after the death of Nichiren.==Date:unknown, Place:Fujisawa, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number19‐44‐0]

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Miyanoshita naraya inn

Miyanoshita naraya inn

A Japanese building of the Naraya Hotel in Miyanoshita. This coincides with the information book of the seven spas. It was destroyed in the fire of 1884. This is an important photo because few pictures taken before that time remain. Emperor Meiji stayed at this hotel in 1874.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number19‐43‐0]

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Western style house in kanagawa

Western style house in kanagawa

The photo is entitled Kanagawa, but the location of the place and building are unknown.==Date:unknown, Place:Kanagawa, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number19‐40‐0]

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View of settlement

View of settlement

From the comparison with other photos, this is probably a view of Yokohama. The large building in the upper left is probably the Yokohama Grand Hotel, but it has been rebuilt and renovated many times, so a comparison with other photos is not possible.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number16‐41‐0]

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ISHIKAWA CANAL

ISHIKAWA CANAL

A view of the Kanazawa Ishikawa canal. From the September 3, 1871 edition of The Far East. From the republished edition of The Far East.==Date:unknown, Place:Yokohama, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number19‐49‐0]

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Sanmaibashi bridge at yumoto hot spring

Sanmaibashi bridge at yumoto hot spring

The Sanmai Bridge in Hakone Yumoto in 1871. At that time, there were no houses to the left of the bridge. The river below is Haya River. The same photo is seen in The Far East Vol.2(14)(1871).It is related to cabinet No.29-20 and 52-13 which were taken in after years.==Date:1871, Place:Hakone, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number19‐50‐0]

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Koshigoe beach

Koshigoe beach

Koshigoe, a village by the beach on the way from Kamakura to Enoshima. From the November 5, 1871 edition of The Far East. From the republished edition of The Far East.==Date:unknown, Place:Kanagawa, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number19‐46‐0]

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Girls having a meal

Girls having a meal

Three young women wearing kimono and hair done in Japanese style pour and drink sake together with a meal placed on low tables in front of each. The alcove has arranged flowers and a scroll with a crane.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number18‐18‐0]

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Father and a son on a pilgrimage

Father and a son on a pilgrimage

Taken by Beato. Entitled Pilgrims . These people are pilgrim beggars called Hachitataki . They chanted from the scriptures in front of houses in priestly vestments and begged while ringing bells hanging in front of their stomachs. From the floor, this may have been taken at Ueno Hikoma's studio.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:F. Beato, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number17‐26‐0]

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Byobu torii gate at the approach to hakone shrine

Byobu torii gate at the approach to hakone shrine

The Byobu Torii on the way to Hakone Shinto Shrine with a view of Ashino Lake. The seats to the right were there until the early Meiji era. A very similar photo appears in The Far East Vol. 2-20, with people in a different position.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number19‐41‐0]

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Lake Biwa seen from Miidera Temple

Lake Biwa seen from Miidera Temple

(Same location as the photo numbered 11-32.) A man holds an umbrella, and some people sit in the temple grounds.==Date:unknown, Place:Otsu, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number19‐4‐0]

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A basket vendor

A basket vendor

The basket seller sells not only baskets but also daily goods made of bamboo. Bamboo is abundant in Japan. It is easy to process and has excellent characteristics of ventilation and water resistance. The sellers went around crying out baskets and miso drainers .==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number18‐24‐0]

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A woman wearing a hood of nobility

A woman wearing a hood of nobility

A picture from the April 23, 1872 edition of The Far East , page 199. Entitled Japanese woman . The veil of a Japanese woman with only the eyes appearing is similar to Moslems in Turkey, but the purpose of the veil is simply to keep out the cold .==Date:1864, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number17‐37‐0]

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