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| Japanese troops leaving Okayama Railroad Station, Okayama, Japan for the front lines in northeastern China, late 1931 | Okayama, Japan under aerial attack, 29 Jun 1945 | Structures on either side of Kencho Dori in ruins, Okayama, Japan, Aug 1945; the area in lower right corner of the photograph was the Okayama Women's Commercial School (now the Prefectural Library), and the surviving major structures in the background were the Tenmaya department store (left), Chugoku Bank building (center), and the Japanese Red Cross Okayama Hospital (right) |
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