Japanese immigration camps in Manchuria, China. Sheep enter corrals. A Japanese boy herding sheep. A Japanese colonist- woman hanging clothes outside her house. A Japanese woman uses a spinning wheel. Another Japanese woman fetches water from a well using a wheel.
A reenactment of Japanese audience at a theater in Japan. Women in kimonos arrive. The audience look towards a cinema movie screen and applauds. Views of faces of the men and women in the audience as they watch the film. A man and a woman watch the show.
Chinese civilians indulge in household work in China. A mountain valley in China. Small houses in the valley and on the foot of the mountains. Children play with three pigs in front of a house. A man separates grain. Women spins while children sit along with them. Many homes,called "Yaodongs"are created from hollowing out the sides of the mountains.
Men study and exercise in China. Men come out of a "Yaodong" (carved out of a mountain side) school, each carrying a text book. They sit and listen to a teacher. Teacher writes on a board. Men seated as they write holding an ink pot in one hand. They all assemble in a ground and exercise.
Activities of children in Japan. Japanese children walking on a street. Mountains in the background. Children on their way to school. A truck passes on the street. A woman rows a boat with oars underway at a river. Sailing boats underway at river. Children aboard a boat.
Opening scene shows Japanese boys performing gymnastic exercises on a high bar at a beach. As they finish a large group of boys runs from the water's edge behind them. The boys run into an outdoor classroom in the shade of trees, where a teacher is instructing uniformed students how to write Japanese kanji characters. The second of two Kanji characters that spell Nippon (Japan) is shown on the blackboard with numeric guides to the sequence of strokes in which it should be written. Scene shifts to the interior of a classroom filled with boys in checkered uniforms. The teacher in this classroom is using the blackboard to teach writing of the same kanji character. As the teacher uses chalk to write the character, the students copy his motions with their hands in the air, as if writing it themselves. Closeup of the boys at their desks using brushes to form the character on paper. One boy uses a still camera to photograph the character he has written. A student is seen wearing earphones and smiling while listening. An old woman, also wearing earphones, appears to enjoy what she hears as she works preparing food in her kitchen. On a river bank, overlooking the water, a group of boys and a group of girls sit on wooden benches with their respective teachers in the shade of a large tree. Closeup of children's feet resting on a beach of many smooth rounded stones, under the wooden bench. Next, boys are seen splashing one and other in the water,
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