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Title card: "Japanese Smash World Marks in Nat'l AAU Swim!" superimposed over pool at start of the 100-meter freestyle event / camera follows swimmers racing away from camera / enthusiastic crowd in grandstand, many Japanese among them / end of race with American Bob Gibe winning by a foot / medium CU Gibe putting on robe / three Japanese winners of 1500-meter race: Shiro Hashizume, 2nd place; Hironoshin Furuhasi, 1st place; and Yoshio Tanaka, 3rd place / swimmers dive in for 800-meter race / spectators watch, applaud / Furuhashi in lane three touches edge of pool, turns to take another lap / spectators applaud / camera follows Furuhashi who is winning, passing other swimmers who are still on previous lap / Furuhashi touches edge of pool, winning the event / CU Furuhashi smiling / swimmers race in 200-meter breaststroke / Joe Verdeur of Brighton, South Carolina, in lane 4 touches edge of pool and wins event / CU Verdeur smiling for camera / diver dives off high board in ten meter event / diver performing back dive from high board / spectators applaud / POV from above contestant diving from high board / rear view of diver flipping to perform difficult dive from high board / side view of Norman Sper diving from high board and winning event

Japanese team at AAU swim meet in Los Angeles

High angle looking down at men's 8oo Meter Freestyle swimming race in progress / Hironoshin Furuhashi in lane six turning at the wall / Hironoshin Furuhashi swimming / race in progress / Japanese spectators clapping / Hironoshin Furuhashi at the finish, breaking the world record. Japan's No 1 Swimmer Breaks World Record on January 01, 1949 (Footage by Getty Images)

Sightseeing on Kajibashi bridge near Miyagawa Morning Market in Takayama Japan

Images were captured from Harumi Rinkai Park at Harumi, Chuo, Tokyo. Tokyo Sky Tree can be seen behind the bridge. Toyosu and Harumi were originally reclaimed industrial area of Tokyo Bay. But, recently commercial facilities and high-rise apartments increase in these areas for Land readjustment and large-scale redevelopment. New Touyosu Fish Market expects to open in Toyosu in near future.

City Canal Waterfront Promenade

Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, Japan

Sumida River Tokyo Japan

KATASE, FUJISAWA, KANAGAWA, JAPAN – JUNE 4, 2024: ENODEN (Enoshima Electric Railway) runs among houses at riverside and crosses Sakaigawa River around Katase Enoshima on June 4, 2024.

One of Ozaya Sluices named Nibanhi, built in the Edo period to create polder by preventing the backwash of the tide and draining from the reclaimed land

Kurashiki Bikan Historical Quarter in Japan

City Traffic in Tokyo , Japan .

Tottori city in the snow in winter

Railway bridge across the river

Winter scenery of Kamogawa River in Kyoto, walking along the Kamogawa River

People crossing a canal bridge at dusk

River in Nagasaki City