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Illustration - Orleans

FRANCE. LOIRET (45) ORLEANS, WHERE JOAN OF ARC'S ARMY DEFEATED THE ENGLISH ON MAY 8, 1429: AT THE CITY'S FINE ARTS MUSEUM, LITHOGRAPH BY THE ENTRANCE Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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JT appoints former MOF bureaucrat Wakui as chairman

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) said April 28 it has unofficially appointed Yoji Wakui (in file photo), the disgraced former director general of the Finance Ministry's Budget Bureau, as its chairman to succeed Tadashi Ogawa in June. Wakui resigned from the ministry after it emerged that he received an expensive lithograph as a wedding gift from a businessman who was later indicted on charges of evading taxes.

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WW2 Poster -- Smash Japanese Aggression!

Smash Japanese Aggression. Propaganda poster, colour lithograph, showing the Gloucester Regiment in action. Date: 1945

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Magician Mr Philippe, the Chinese Physicist

Undated print of lithograph of magician Mr Philippe, the Chinese Physicist (Physicien Chinois) with Scottish assistant, Domingo, behind him. HPG/8/2/1 (xxxix) Date: late 19th century

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The torii gate of Enoshima Shrine

Photographer unknown. The sign for Ebisuya Mohachi is visible behind the bronze torii gate of Enoshima Shinto Shrine. Opened in the Edo Period, Ebisuya is a traditional inn remaining in business to this day. The lithograph The First Class Inn Ebisuya carried in the 1894 The Japan Illustrated indicates that the buildings shown on the left here are the main building, an earthen warehouse, and the upper room.==Date:unknown, Place:Enoshima, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number90‐2‐0]

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Fujin-do,Mt. Maya

Mayasan Toritenjoji Temple. The building in the centre is Bujin-do, which houses a statue of Mayabunin (the mother of Buddha) brought from Tang Dynasty China by the Japanese priest Kobodaishi in the early ninth century. The same photograph was carried in a Kobe guidebook published in 1897, and a lithograph apparently copied from it appeared in another guidebook published in 1893. Thus, it was probably taken in the mid-Meiji Period.==Date:unknown, Place:Kobe, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number71‐17‐0]

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JT appoints former MOF bureaucrat Wakui as chairman

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) said April 28 it has unofficially appointed Yoji Wakui (in file photo), the disgraced former director general of the Finance Ministry's Budget Bureau, as its chairman to succeed Tadashi Ogawa in June. Wakui resigned from the ministry after it emerged that he received an expensive lithograph as a wedding gift from a businessman who was later indicted on charges of evading taxes. (Kyodo)