Firefighting equipment at a steel mill and oil refinery in Otaka, Japan. A reinforced concrete shelter is used to protect the fire fighting equipment at the steel mill. The fire fighting equipment being towed out of its underground revetment at the oil refinery. A Japanese worker removes human excrement from a out house for use as fertilizer. Grain being weighed and measured by merchant in Kyoto. People in a line wait for their ration of grains. A wagonsmiths shop in Kyoto.