The Snapshots in Time Collection

Ruins of a Bombed Industrial Facility Beneath Terraced Hillside, Japan, Believed Post-World War II

Ruins of a Bombed Industrial Facility Beneath Terraced Hillside, Japan, Believed Post-World War II

The bombed-out ruins of an industrial facility in Japan, photographed against a backdrop of traditional terraced hillside farmland. Scenes such as this, common throughout Japan in the years following World War II, document the widespread destruction of industrial infrastructure from Allied bombing campaigns and the slow process of postwar recovery. Project: 218332