Tokyo 1871 Birth of a Nation This rare photo from 1871 shows Tokyo’s Nihonbashi Bridge made famous in countless woodblock prints. A year after Austrian photographer Michael Moser shot this scene, the bridge was torn down and rebuilt. Read more Kobe 1871 Battling Japan's Typhoons In July 1871 a strong typhoon devastated western Japan. It was one of the first strong typhoons that foreigners in the n