Japanese school girls in a classroom.
This photo comes from a year album for 1935 of Okayama Girls’ High School (岡山県岡山高等女学校) in Okayama City, Japan. The 55 photographs show the female students studying, doing traditional Japanese as well Western sports, playing games, posing, at the train station and about town. The album also includes classroom scenes, portraits of teachers as well as administrative personnel and the Showa era wooden school building itself.
For more information about education in Japan during the Meiji, Taisho and early Showa periods, read Okayama 1935 • School Girls Eating Bento.
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Duits, Kjeld (). Okayama 1935: Girls in a Classroom, OLD PHOTOS of JAPAN. Retrieved on May 12, 2026 (GMT) from https://www.oldphotosjapan.com/photos/315/girls-in-a-classroom
John Charles Baker
I enjoyed reading your notes and seeing the images from earlier years.
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Kjeld Duits (Author)
@John Charles Baker: Thank you, John!
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