Snapshots of post-WWII Japan from a photo album

The Papergreat archives are full of hundreds of vintage vernacular photos and real photo postcards. They're snapshots from a fleeting moment of time decades ago, or perhaps even more than a century ago. I love looking at the faces and the scenery, and thinking about what was going on in those people's minds. What had their life been like up to that point? What was it like afterward? Sometimes you can make guesses based on what you see etched in their faces, but they're only guesses.

Today's photos are all from a 20th century photo album from Japan. I don't know anything about it beyond these photos, though being able to read Japanese might have helped. My guess is that most of these photos are from the 1950s and 1960s, but please correct me if I'm wrong. Several of the photos feature Japanese baseball teams; baseball had been popular in Japan since the 1870s and grew even more popular there after World War II.

All of these photos, including the one above, feature great faces. The kind of faces you could guess about for hours...