Mount Fuji is one of the most iconic images from Japan. In my father's collection of photographs from 1946 there are five pictures of the sleeping volcano. They appear to have been taken from the North side of the mount, at various distances and angles. Given the perspective the lake is most likely to be Lake Yamanaka.
There is also a postcard sized photograph (the ones above are 6x9 cms in original size) of Mount Fuji shown below; but I believe that this is a picture that was given to troops to take or send home as a souvenir of their time overseas.
And, finally, when I was in Japan in 2011 I was able to take these from the Shinkansen train to and from Tokyo and from the plane back to the Netherlands.
The following photographs were taken in and around Kyoto, Japan, in 1946. It was clear that my father and his companions visited a number of locations that were within a reasonable travelling distance of Hiroshima and Miyajima Island. The first is old Kyoto railway station (now very different):
The next two are of the famous Higashi Honganji buddhist temple in Kyoto built in 1895 after a fire burned down the previous temple.It has changed very little since 1946.
And finally there is a picture of a policeman standing outside the gates of Kyoto castle.
