戦前写真７０００枚発見　同盟通信配信、ネット公開―新聞通信調査会

　公益財団法人「新聞通信調査会」（西沢豊理事長）は９日、戦前の通信社「同盟通信社」などが新聞社向けに配信した写真７０５４枚が国立国会図書館の書庫から発見されたと発表した。日本が戦争へ突き進んでいった当時の世相が垣間見えるという。同会は同日、ホームページで公開を始めた。
　発見された写真は１９３２～４０年に配信された。盧溝橋事件や中国・南京を占領した旧日本軍、ガスマスクを着けた女子学生らが参加した防空演習などの戦争関連や、昭和三陸津波（３３年）、米大リーグホームラン王のベーブ・ルース来日（３４年）の様子など多岐にわたる。（2022/08/09-10:34）

The Japan Press Research Institute said Tuesday that 7,054 photographs taken before World War II have been found.
   The photos distributed to newspapers between 1932 and 1940 mainly by Domei News Agency, which existed in Japan before and during WWII, were discovered at the National Diet Library in Tokyo.
   According to the institute, which is a public interest incorporated foundation, these photos showed social situations before the war. On Tuesday, the institute posted the photos on its webpage.
   The photos captured scenes in various events, including the Marco Polo Bridge incident, the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Army occupying Nanjing, China, and an air defense drill joined by female students wearing gas masks, as well as the 1933 Showa Sanriku tsunami and the 1934 visit of Babe Ruth, a U.S. Major League Baseball home run king, to Japan.
   The institute said that its officials found 101 albums with the photos and their captions at the National Diet Library in 2019. Since then, efforts had been made to digitize the pictures.