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Destroyed Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall in Japan, also known as A-Bomb Dome, 7 months after atomic bombing

Physical damage caused due to atom bomb explosion in Hiroshima, Japan. Effects of blast on the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall seen across a river. (It is now known as the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, the A-Bomb Dome, or the Atomic Bomb Dome). Dome shaped building largely blown out and destroyed. Steel frame structure of the building.

Date: 1946, March 13
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042156
Girls carry lumber for the construction of the Sakuragaoka Girl's High School in Tokuyama-City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.

Various houses and a school are under construction in Tokuyama-City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Japanese girls carry lumber to construct school rooms for the Sakuragaoka Girls' High School. Two canvas covered huts used as school rooms and half constructed school building in the background. Newly built middle class Japanese houses. In the background there is a technical school. A Japanese laborer mixes mud and straw in a big wooden container by stomping around in it with his bare feet. Construction of a wooden frame structure. A man sifts sand used in the covering of walls of the houses under construction.

Date: 1945, December 29
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060715
A candidate represents Hiroshima Prefecture and is electioneering for the Diet during a street rally in Hiroshima, Japan.

Japanese civilians listen to a speaker during a street rally held in Hiroshima. The candidate represents Hiroshima Prefecture and is electioneering for the Diet. The crowd listens to the speaker. People as they listen to speaker. A member of Japanese Free Party Nippon Jiju Mr. Hisao Yamamoto speaks to the people about the policies of his party and begs the men and women to vote for him.

Date: 1946, April 9
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060706
Japanese laborers work on houses under construction in Tokuyama-City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.

Construction of new houses in Tokuyama-City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. A new house under construction. A Japanese laborer drills holes through roof slats. The laborer picks up pieces he has drilled holes in and climbs up a step ladder and onto a roof. A middle class house recently constructed shows delicate and extension glass. Paneling for out doors and paper paneling for the inner corridor. Construction of a new Japanese house shows a carpenter using a tool to square lumber. Two workers roofing with bamboo. Construction of another house shows a bamboo thatched roof and in the background another house under construction. A man weaves a bamboo lathe for a house wall which is later to be plastered with mud.

Date: 1945, December 29
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060714
Japanese civilians visit Shinto shrine and perform rituals in Japan.

Shintoism as a religion practiced in Japan. A Shinto priest reads from a paper. A torii found in a Shinto shrine garden. View of the “floating” torii gate of the Itsukushima Shrine (1-1 Miyajimacho, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima 739-0588, Japan) in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. A Japanese man stands under the “floating” torii gate. Two Shinto priests walking. Stone stairs leading to a Shinto shrine. A man bows at a small shrine. Façade of a Shinto shrine (likely the Kitano Tenmangū Shrine in Kyoto, Japan). Crowds of worshippers visit a Shinto shrine. The Imperial Chrysanthemum Seal (kikumon) is displayed on the side of a Shinto gate. Priests perform purification rituals. Japanese woman performs rituals. Priest gives blessing to people.

Date: 1936
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024914
Orientation film for U.S. Occupational Forces in Japan. Militaristic Japan in past wars. Converting Japan into Peaceful Nation

Segment of orientation film for American troops occupying Japan after World War 2. First scene shows Japanese troops marching shouldering rifles with fixed bayonets. Viewed from more distance they are seen marching past the Japanese Imperial Palace on a hill in the background. Slate is superimposed over the scene reading: "Created to Rule the Whole Earth." Japanese soldiers rising from trenches to charge their enemy. Shells bursting all around them. Views of some huge explosions. Dead Chinese woman and child lying in rubble. Japanese soldier holding Rising Sun flag, charging past building. More dead women and children. Japanese troops advancing against wooden houses. Dead soldier lying on ground, with pistol held in his upraised hand. Japanese troops advancing past burning rural dwellings. Dead civilians in wreckage. Troops holding Japanese flags celebrate a battlefield victory. Views of wounded Allied soldiers being transported on litters by American soldiers, interwoven with views of Japanese troops celebrating. Japanese civilians celebrating en masse. View of a human brain superimposed over scenes of celebrating Japanese soldiers and people. A slate superimposed at this point reading: "This is Japan's Last War." Views of Japanese workers busy in her war plants, building armaments, war planes, and tanks; Japanese military officers walking in full dress uniforms ; Japanese warships; and Mitsubishi Ki-21 bombers in formation ("Type 97 Heavy Bombers") . All these views of war machinery are symbolically ended by intervening views of explosions. View of crashed Japanese warplane. Several American soldiers are seen among many Japanese people. Several American soldiers check identification of a Japanese man. U.S. soldiers standing guard in a roadway, as many Japanese stand in background. American soldier searching an unarmed Japanese soldier. Two American soldiers use a phrase book as they ask directions from a Japanese woman and her daughter. Japanese youth clapping hands and holding a homemade American flag. U.S. military officers accepting Chrysanthemum flowers from girls in traditional Japanese attire. A U.S. soldier reads a comic book to a Japanese boy. Other American GIs talk with a Japanese soldier. American troops in a chow line at a dining hall. U.S. soldiers with Japanese children at the Great Buddha of Kamakura at the Kotoku-in Temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. American soldier riding a bucking bronco in a Western Rodeo put on by U.S. forces. U.S. soldier and Japanese police sentries standing side by side.

Date: 1946
Duration: 4 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036534