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  • Kjeld Duits (The Tsutenkaku Shinsekai Runa Park Osaka)

    For that you’d need a time machine… It is all long gone, I am afraid.

  • Mhunter (The Tsutenkaku Shinsekai Runa Park Osaka)

    looks just awesomre at the picture. I wish I could see everything with my own eyes someday!!!

  • Paul Barclay (POJ Starts Jan 1, 2010)

    The Gerald Warner Taiwan Images Collection has been re-structured and augmented (considerably). The new version is titled “The East Asia Image Collection.” http://digital.lafayette.edu/collections/eastasia The East Asia …

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    Postcards of Japan Articles: POJ Starts Jan 1, 2010

    Postcards of Japan (POJ) aims to be a central repository for information on vintage postcards of Japan and the Japanese. Our focus is the pre-war period.
    Sakaeya Shoten Card Publishers: Sakaeya Shoten

    Sakaeya Shoten (also Sakaeya) was founded in May 1893 (Meiji 26) as a shop selling ryumon stamps by Kotaro Imaki, who hailed from Toyoura-gun in Yamaguchi Prefecture. It was located on Motomachi-douri 3 chome in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture.
    The Grand Hotel in Yokohama Articles: The Grand Hotel, Yokohama

    The Grand Hotel opened on August 16, 1873 (Meiji 6) and was soon considered the height of Western culture and elegance in Japan. It was located on the Bund and overlooked Yokohama Bay.
    Commeration of Opening of Yokohama Harbor Articles: High Prices for Japanese Vintage Postcards

    On December 22, in a single day, two vintage Japanese postcards sold at over 250 dollars each. One card on eBay, the other on Yahoo! Japan’s auction site.
    100 nen Books: Book: Yokohama & Kanagawa 100 Years Ago

    Publisher Yurindo celebrated its 90th anniversary in 1999 with a wonderful book containing 1,200 vintage postcards of landscape and street scenes of Yokohama and surrounding areas.
    Postcards of Japan Recommended Sites: Gerald Warner Collection

    The Gerald Warner Taiwan Image Collection is a photographic record of a US consul’s impressions of urban and rural life in Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule.
    Postcards of Japan Articles: Dating Japanese Vintage Postcards

    Vintage Japanese postcards give a wonderful view of what Japan and the Japanese used to look like about a hundred years ago. But dating them is still more an art than a science.
    Postcards of Japan Recommended Sites: Curt Teich Postcard Archives, The

    The Curt Teich Postcard Archives, part of the Lake County Discovery Museum, is recognized throughout the world as the largest public collection of postcards and related materials.
    Postcards of Japan Articles: Japanese Years

    A list of all Japanese years since 1868 (Meiji 1) with the corresponding Western year.
    Postcards of Japan Articles: Quick Reference

    Undivided: < Mar 28, 1907
    Third divided: Mar 28, 1907 >
    Half divided: Mar 1, 1918 >
    Convert Japanese Years