Japan

(12246) Japanese trade unionists visit

jruss — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:26:45 -0500

AFSCME Council 27 field representative Euell Rader greets a delegation from Japan’s public employee trade union, JICHIRO, in Palo Alto, California. Left to right: Rader, Masamatsu Sugawara, general treasurer of Tokyo Metropolitan Workers Union; Akira Noda, president of the Hiroshima Prefectural branch of JICHIRO; Suehiro Ueda, general secretary of the Osaka City Workers Union; Vasuo Maruyama, vice president of JICHIRO; Richard Kriegel, Public Services International Inter-American Representative; and an unidentified interpreter.

(28281) Ethnic Communities, Japanese, Detroit, 1945

eclemens — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:10:50 -0400

Santa Claus visits with a group of Japanese children during a Christmas Party at the Caucasian Fellowship.

(28284) Ethnic Communities, Japanese, Detroit, Customs, 1955

eclemens — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:16:01 -0400

Michiko Bracey poses for a photograph while dressed in traditional costume.
Photograph ran in the Women’s Section of the Detroit News, possibly as a wedding feature.

(28285) Ethnic Communities, Japanese, Detroit, Costumes, 1958

eclemens — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:18:16 -0400

Mrs. Stanley Malecki poses for a photograph while dressed in traditional costume.

(28572) Admiral Chester Nimitz, USS Missouri, Peace Treaty, 1945

eclemens — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:13:58 -0400

U.S. Admiral Chester Nimitz signs the peace treaty with Japan aboard the USS Missouri, putting an end to the Second World War.