Soldiers marching in the Yasukuni Shrine (3 Chome-1-1 Kudankita, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 102-8246, Japan), in Tokyo, Japan prior to World War 2. . Soldiers visit the shrine to commemorate Japanese troops who died in the wars involving Japan since the Meiji period. Soldiers march through a torii and into the shrine. The Imperial Seal of Japan, known as the Chrysanthemum Seal (菊紋, kikumon), is displayed in front of the Yasukuni Shrine. Officers salute in front of a map.
Wounded Japanese troops visit the Yasukuni Shrine (3 Chome-1-1 Kudankita, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 102-8246, Japan) in Tokyo, Japan. Visitors commemorate the Japanese people killed on foreign soil in wars involving Japan since the Meiji period. A group of wounded soldiers (wearing white robes) leaves the shrine. The Imperial Seal of Japan, known as the Chrysanthemum Seal (菊紋, kikumon), is displayed in front of the Yasukuni Shrine. A man in uniform accompanies the group of wounded soldiers. Soldiers put on their caps while walking. Two soldiers sitting near a window in a bus, watching a woman and a child near the window outside. Wounded soldiers get into buses. A woman standing at the gate of a bus bows as the soldiers enter the bus. (Note: the conflict creating casualties at this time is probably on the Manchuko border with the Soviet Union.)
A look at various sources of energy in Japan prior to World War 2. Japanese coal miners ride railcars down into a mine. View of miner using pneumatic drill to cut away coal at the face. Steam shovel bucket loading bituminous coal into open rail car. Animated map showing locations of Japan's coal mining areas in Kyushu and Hokkaido and small deposits in Honshu. Scene shifts to a river and water power generation site. View of turbines in water-powered electric generating plant. Generator buildings at side of river. Electric power transmission facilities. View from below a dam of a hydroelectric plant in central Honshu. Pipes carrying water down a mountainside. Reservoirs for storing water. Animated map depicting meager oil deposits in Japan and showing some of its oil processing and storage facilities.
Joseph Clark Grew, the United States Ambassador to Japan, in Japan. Grew arrives in his study room. He talks over a telephone and writes on a paper. Grew picks up the paper and again make a call. He then lights his pipe. Grew sits with his family including his daughter and two children. He shows a typewriter to one of the children. Grew's daughter Mrs. Lilla Cabot Grew talks.
Goosestepping German troops parade. A group of German Panzer I Ausf. A tanks armed with twin 7.92 mm machine guns, are seen crossing a field. A squadron of German airplanes flies overhead in formation. Spectators watch as Austrian Army troops assemble and drill in Vienna, Austria Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg speaking before the Austrian Federal Diet on 24 February , 1938. He rejects Hitler's plans for Austria, saying: "…Austria will go thus far and no further." Closeups of some Austrian citizens. German troops entering Austria, during the "Anschluss" on 12 March 1938. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at Heston Aerodrome in London, England, departing on 29 September, 1938, to meet with Adolf Hitler in Munich, Germany. His aircraft taking off. View of anti-aircraft gun set up in London, with Big Ben and Parliament building in background. Workmen with shovels breaking ground for defenses in London. A woman wearing a gas mask, carries a baby in England. Prime Minister Chamberlain speaking at Heston airport upon his return from Munich, on 16 September. 1938. Views of broken shop windows in Berlin, Germany, following the "Kristallnacht" violent anti-Jewish actions by Nazi Brown shirts on November 9 and 10, 1938. Jewish refugee men, women, and children gather around a fire and outdoor kitchen in an encampment on a field. They warm themselves by the fire. Two women pump water from a well in the field. Closeups of some of the people, including a small child. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt at a table with members of his cabinet,
Steamers underway at sea in Japan. The flag of Japan at steamer. Logo of Three Diamond Brand on steamer. Various countries signs on map. The map explains the data of cases of USA, Hawaii, Canada, England, Australia, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and others countries for year of 1924-1927. Tins of 'Three Diamond, Fancy CrabMeat'. Tins of 'Icebond Brand, Selected CrabMeat' displayed. Three Diamond Brand of canned crab and logo of Three Diamond.
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