Tokyo;Japan

Holstein cows at the Ueno Zoo, with onlookers beside the fence. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Holstein cows in one of the cages at the zoo in Ueno Park, Tokyo, with Japanese of various ages looking at the cows and at goats in a near cage (out of sight)."

Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Modest Japanese home under construction in the Ueno Park section, north Tokyo. The studdings are 2x2 inch pieces, there is a bark covering on the roof, and there is a "backplastering" of mud and rice straw on a wickerwork of bamboo canes. The house will be covered with boards (1/4 or 1/2 inch) and may or may not have tile placed on the roof."

Front entrance to the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "The Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, as seen from across the street along the moat. This is the building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright to be quakeproof. Front view."

Lotus flowers floating in the pool in front of the entrance to the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "The lotus flowers in the pool in the courtyard at the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo."

Moat and an earth embankment on the south side of the Imperial Palace grounds in Tokyo. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Part of the moat along the south side of the grounds about the Imperial Palace, Tokyo, with the gate shown in G25 appearing in the distance. There is an earth embankment on the inside of the moat at this section."

The National Diet Building in Tokyo where the national legislatures meet. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "The Diet Building, equivalent to our Capitol, as seen from the north side in the late afternoon in Tokyo."

Partially re-built section in central Tokyo from the view of the the Dai Iti Hotel. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Largely destroyed and partially re-built section in central Tokyo south of the Dai Iti Hotel, as seen from the fourth floor of that building. Near buildings seem to be mainly of frame construction and evidently serve both as homes and as shops."

People at a safety island in a busy street intersection. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "A group of people, including one American soldier and a few Japanese women in bright kimonos, waiting on a safety island for street cars and buses at the intersection shown in G13."

Drivers pulling a rickshaw and a bicycle trailer in a downtown Tokyo street intersection, with Japanese and American officers directing traffic in the background. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "The intersection shown in G13 with a bicycle trailer and a man pulling a two-wheeled cart in the foreground and with the police in the background."

A field of rice paddies and a corner of a house under construction, with a backplastering of mud and rice straw on a wickerwork of bamboo canes, in the Ueno Park section of northern Tokyo. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Corner of the house shown in G30 with rice paddies immediately beyond it and some of the office buildings and stores of the Ueno Park section in the distance."