Fluidr / Mustang Koji's "Relatives" set

Hiroshima 1948

N 20 B 2.7K C 9 E May 27, 2015 F May 27, 2015

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Aunt Michie and her kids (my cousins), taken by my dad in front of the Kanemoto home in December 1947.

N 9 B 480 C 9 E Feb 18, 2016 F Feb 18, 2016

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Dad is standing in front of a Quonset hut in Yokohama. He said there were thousands of "lesser" war crimes trials; all he would ever say was they involved rape, murder, brutality and the like.

Dad in Occupied Japan

N 46 B 2.1K C 13 E Jul 7, 2016 F Jul 7, 2016

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Found this pic today. Dad in his US 8th Army's sergeant's uniform while deployed in the famed Military Intelligence Service (MIS). A very EDUCATED guess with no basis whatsoever is that he may have functioned as a translator/tour guide in an official duty assignment for the passengers. Circa 1948, Tokyo.

Rare Family Photo

N 2 B 1.2K C 6 E Sep 20, 2012 F Sep 20, 2012

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My guess is circa 1926; the youngest sister Mieko appears to be about two years old. Dad on left, Uncle Suetaro is the boy in the center (KIA on Leyte July 1945). By 1927, all but the oldest boy (Uncle Yutaka seated on the left) would be living in Hiroshima. Only two would return to the United States before the outbreak of war. Of those left in Japan, only my Grandma will be alive by war's end.

This was taken in Seattle. The finish was heavily soiled by oils left by those who handled it decades earlier and could not be smoothly removed with my basic editing software.

Fujii Hotel

N 9 B 134 C 0 E Jan 11, 2018 F Jan 11, 2018

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King and Maynard Streets, Seattle, WA. Circa 1902 due to absence of a sidewalk. Grandfather's barbershop was under the "Fujiji Hotel" sign at lower left.