Photographs and digital images
Photographs of Kyoto in the mid-1960s
In 1933, the renowned German architect, Bruno Taut, fleeing Nazism, arrived in Japan. The result of his three-year stay was the classic study, Houses and people of Japan, published in 1938. The world he described was on the verge of destruction.
Sixty-seven cities were destroyed in Japan in 1944-45. Kyoto was saved from napalm and the atomic bomb by Henry Stimson, Secretary of War to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, who had honeymooned there with his wife in 1926.
For an understanding of what was destroyed, see Mark Seldon, A forgotten holocaust… (The Asia-Pacific Journal) and 67 Japanese cities firebombed.
See Kyoto Journal, #76, 2011 and republished in 2018.