Reparations

Three Japanese women shop from outdoor merchant stalls on the Ginza in Tokyo, Japan. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Scene of bomb and fire damage in Tokyo, Japan. A six-story building shows evidence of fire damage. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Scene of bomb and fire damage in Tokyo, Japan. A Japanese man walks toward the camera on a street with rubble piled by the side. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Scene of bomb and fire damage in Tokyo, Japan. A child walks away from the camera on a street with rubble piled by the side. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Scene of bomb and fire damage in Tokyo, Japan. A wooden building stands amidst rubble. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Ben Olsen, member of Reparations Mission, standing in swimming pool in the gardens of the Mitsui Club where the Reparations Mission stayed in Tokyo, Japan. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Colonel William Mayer, member of Reparations Mission, stands in swimming pool in the gardens at the Mitsui Club where the Reparations Mission stayed in Tokyo, Japan. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Japanese waitresses who cared for Reparations Mission, posed standing on an arched bridge in the gardens of the Mitsui Club where the Reparations Mission stayed in Tokyo, Japan. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley standing in the gardens at the Mitsui Club where the Reparations Mission stayed in Tokyo, Japan. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

One unidentified military staff member, a Japanese photographer in civilian clothing, and a military photographer with the Reparations Mission, waiting to photograph Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley and General Douglas MacArthur outside the Dai Ichi Building in Tokyo, Japan. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).