Season 16, Episode 4: Monsters Real and Imagined (Social Matters, 1945-1954)
A photograph featuring dozens of Allied sailors and soldiers waiting in line to enter Yasuura House, one of the RAA’s established brothels built and maintained exclusively for the use of Allied personnel. Source: Public Domain
A photograph taken by Allied forces of Hiroshima shortly after their arrival on Japan. Source: Public Domain
A photograph of Emperor Hirohito visiting Hiroshima in 1947. In the background can be seen the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, a domed concrete building which survived the blast. Source: Public Domain
A photograph of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park taken in 2018. In the background can be seen the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall. Source: Public Domain
A photograph of Nagasaki Peace Park in 2009, featuring a large peace statue in the background. Source: jimmyweee, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A sign in English and Japanese warning patrons that dancing is legally prohibited in the establishment. Source: Nicolas1981, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A photograph of the bow of the Daigo Fukyryu Maru, the “Lucky Dragon Number 5” which was snowed by radioactive fallout after a nuclear test in 1954. Today it is housed in a memorial museum. Source: Public Domain
A photograph of protests during the Hanshin Education Incident, during which demonstrators protested the closures of Korean Language schools under the new education law. Source: Public Domain
A promotional poster advertising the first Godzilla film, which was released in late 1954. The film spawned the longest-lasting film franchise in world history. Source: Public Domain
A still photograph of the original Godzilla film, which featured the use of miniature models and forced perspective to make a man in a giant lizard suit look like a big monster. Source: Public Domain
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