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A farmer and a small, heavily laden night soil truck in a cultivated field. Night soil trucks are more commonly known as Honey-Bucket trucks.

A street with decorations for the Tanabata Festival. A crowd of people is gathered.

A street with decorations for the Tanabata Festival. A crowd of people is gathered.

A man on a bicycle carries a towering load of dishes and food containers, quite probably soba as it was one of the most popular delivery meals. The practice of Demae (food delivery) is thought to have origniated in the mid-Edo period (1700s) and was…

A row of seated Japanese women with one man.

Teams from U.S. military base schools line up after a game.

A woman sits at a desk in the background of this photo of the children's restaurant Okosama Shokudō.

Two casually-dressed men sit and smile at the camera.

A man sleeping on a park bench under a blanket of newspaper.

An ox draws a cart loaded with containers of night soil down a city street.