Japanese sports prior to World War 2. Closeup of American type football placed on the ground and held by a player as another does a Kick off. Next, players are seen tackling a runner carrying the ball. Scene changes to a gymnasium where Japanese men demonstrate various aspects of Karate. The final scenes show Japanese baseball players warming up before a game. Then baseball players march onto a ball field accompanied by a brass band playing in formation on the field. View of baseball stadium filled with fans as a game is in progress. A batter hits the ball and safely reaches a base, with a hit.
Opening scene shows instructor on a raised platform drilling students in preliminaries for Kendo training. Next, the students divided into two large teams, charge each other in combat exercise. The students wear protective armor (Bogu) and wield wooden swords (Bokken).
Snippets from various Japanese movies circa 1937. View of a Japanese coastal town . A Japanese man in western attire talks to his wife at home. The wife, wearing a kimono, looks away from her husband sadly. Cars driving on hilly road. A Japanese woman chatting as she sits between two men in the back of a convertible car in the countryside. A woman talks to a man smoking on a dock. She walks towards a docked cargo ship. Men and children fishing in the countryside. Cars and trains are seen moving on a bridge in the background. A man and a child walk past boats on the beach. The child avoids the waves as they walk.
Japanese Shinto pilgrims climbing Mount Fuji through a narrow mountain trail. More pilgrims carrying banners in rural road with view of Mount Fuji in the background.
Crew members seen at duty stations in a B-52. View from the cockpit as the B-52 approaches a KC-135 tanker aircraft in flight. Refueling boom of the tanker comes close to the B-52 windshield and then disappears from view above and behind. B-52 breaks off and pilot smiles.
B-29 bombers of the United States Army Air Force flying for Nagoya mission at the Japanese city of Nagoya during World War II. Nagoya as seen from a plane flying high. The railway tracks, roads and rivers of Nagoya as seen from the plane.
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