25 Kodachrome Slides of Japan in the Early 1950s

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Post-occupation Japan is the period in postwar Japanese history which started when the Allied occupation of Japan ended in 1952 and lasted to the end of the Showa era in 1989. Despite the massive devastation it suffered in the Second World War, Japan established itself as a rich global economic power at peace with the world. In terms of political power it was more reluctant, especially in the nonuse of military force.

These old Kodachrome slides from Chris Spehr were taken by her grandfather in various places in Japan including Nara, Yokahama, and Nagasaki from when her grandfather was stationed after World War II.