Axis of Info » Japan http://axisofinfo.com Sharing the Internet's Best Pictures Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:22:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Panzer-smashing Sumo http://axisofinfo.com/2008/05/09/panzer-smashing-sumo/ http://axisofinfo.com/2008/05/09/panzer-smashing-sumo/#comments Fri, 09 May 2008 13:35:26 +0000 admin http://www.axisofinfo.com/?p=68 The answer to the age old question: Could a sumo wrestler beat a tank in a one-on-one battle?

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The Japanese National Diet Library’s website has put up a huge collection of photographs taken in Tokyo around the beginning of the 20th century.

After spending a couple hours on the site, I saved 22 of my favorite photographs and have posted them here for you all to enjoy. Most of these were taken around Meiji Year 44 (1913):

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The last few photographs were my favorites. I believe that they show some people having picnics during the cherry blossom viewing season, a music school, and a crowd watching a Waseda University baseball game. Very cool stuff, eh?

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