Old Photos of Japan rescues rare images of daily life in old Japan
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Spotlight
New Acquisitions

Discover some of the new prints added to the Duits Collection. Part 1.

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Studio 1890s
The Burden of Youth (4)

From the late 1800s countless young Japanese girls worked as indentured nursemaids. PART 4: Legacy.

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Outside 1900s
The Burden of Youth (3)

From the late 1800s countless young Japanese girls worked as indentured nursemaids. PART 3: A danger to the nation-state.

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Outside 1880s
The Burden of Youth (2)

From the late 1800s countless young Japanese girls worked as indentured nursemaids. PART 2: Privations and resistance.

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Outside 1900s
The Burden of Youth (1)

From the late 1800s countless young Japanese girls worked as indentured nursemaids. PART 1: Children in bondage.

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Yokohama 1923
A Story of Survival

A devastated landscape, almost everything burned to the ground. This is Yokohama after the Great Kantō Earthquake of September 1, 1923, this year exactly one century ago. How could anybody have survived?