Post-war

In the post-War period, up until 1975, Emperor Showa prayed at the Yasukuni Shrine a total of 8 times.

The post-war economic development of vanquished nations can be rapid if they are not looted by the victors. For this there are two reasons. First, everything has not been destroyed: some things are merely broken; and a relatively small effort of rehabilitation is multiplied by the value of what remains serviceable. Second is the disabling of entrenched power structures, which often stand as a bar to progress.

He relished the ordinariness of post-war life.

However, the bike does not have it easy. For decades, the automobile has been the symbol of freedom, the icon of the American Way, progress and industrialization. After World War II, the auto assembly line drove America out of the post-war recession and helped establish the middle class.

Some old, underfired clay pantiles might be damaged by button mosses rooting in cracks and fissures. But most post-war tiles are hard enough to withstand a bit of moss growth.

[...] after the original Victorian station was demolished and then entombed in concrete in the 1960s, Birmingham New Street became a byword for the worst excesses of the much-loathed Brutalist architecture so widely used to reconstruct inner-city post-war Britain.