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This Japanese photograph and postcard collection is composed of five different groups: photographs and postcards collected by Samuel McCune Lindsay (Series 1); photographs and postcards collected by J. W. T. Mason (Series 2); photographs donated by Katharine Becke (Series 3); Japanese Subjugation of Rehe Sheng (China) "Public Relations Photographs" (Series 4); and other postcards and photographs (Series 5). The majority of items were created and/or collected during the 1930s in Japan; however, the collection includes items created throughout the twentieth century as well as originating in neighboring countries such as China and Korea.

This small collection contains two letters: one from Ruth Stern to her family in which she discusses various experiences as an American new to Japan and introduces Aisaku Hayashi. The letter is written on Imperial Hotel stationary and is dated August 25, 1930. In her correspondence to her family, she encloses the second letter in the collection, a short letter from Aisaku Hayashi to Stern dated August 22, 1930. In the letter, Hayashi discusses his view on Japanese people and details an anecdote about his time as manager of the Imperial Hotel.