These pictures were taken in Japan during March, 1969. I took a 1 week leave from my Korean duty station, and flew from Korea to Japan on an Air America DC-3 propeller plane. The plane landed at Tachikawa Air Force Base, which is located approximately 40 miles northeast of Tokyo.
This page consists of 3 different and unrelated groupings.
1. The Tokyo Zoo
2. Tachikawa area
3. Osaka area
Click on an image to see the full size picture
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| The Tokyo zoo | Feeding the elephant | Riding a carousel |
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| Grandmother, daughter and grandchildren at the zoo | Lunch time at the zoo. Eating a riceball | Cleaning up |
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| A young girl at the zoo | Tachikawa train station. There was a U.S. air base outside of Tachikawa. I bunked at the air base for a number of nights. | Near Tachikawa train station |
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| Tachikawa | A movie theater in Tachikawa | Tachikawa |
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| The train track from Tachikawa to Tokyo | Waiting for the train | Heading for Tokyo |
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| 10:50 P.M. Leaving Tokyo for Tachikawa | On the bullet train from Tokyo to Osaka | A snack on the train |
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| View from the train. Men and machinary working the fields | Osaka, from the tallest building | Another view from the tallest building |
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| Looking down at an amusement park on the roof of an adjacent building | Mother and her children | Viewing the latest in camera equipment at a camera store |
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| Early Spring in Osaka | Osaka street scene | A street repairman |
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| Osaka street scene | Policeman | Osaka street scene |
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| Osaka street scene | Mother and child. She is wearing the cotton mask to protect herself from airborne infections | Osaka street scene |
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| Craftsman repairing a fence in Osaka | Osaka cemetery | Entrance to Shinto shrine |
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| Shinto Shrine | Shrine in the cemetery | In the Shinto shrine |
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| Down and out in Osaka | Public telephone | Osaka street scene |
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| The Coca-Cola delivery man | On the way to work | Inn of the Three Sisters. I bedded down there while I was in Osaka |
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This page created, and all photographs copyright 2002, by Neil Mishalov neil@mishalov.com on 10 June 2002.
Updated 15 February 2003