Japanese propaganda during the Sino-Japanese War. The Japanese Rising Sun Flag on a ship sailing in the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China. Warships sail in the Huangpu River. Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) Soldiers unload supplies and provisions from ships. Soldiers climb down ship gang plank. A crane lowers a bucking horse onto the dock. Japanese soldiers approach a horse on the dock. A Sumida M.2593 (Type 91) armored car being lowered from a ship. Japanese troops disembark in Shanghai. Soldiers feed a horse. A Japanese soldier with bayonet rifle on guard. Japanese soldiers distribute rice to Chinese children. Chinese civilians with Japanese soldiers. A Japanese soldier giving candies to children. Chinese boys holding baskets. A Japanese soldier lights a cigarette for an Chinese woman. Japanese soldier stands at edge of field. Chinese farmers harvest in fields. A girl with braided pigtails carries a basket of vegetables. A farmer wearing a Japanese red sun symbol on his sleeve threshes hay in the countryside. Japanese soldier offers flowers to a memorial for dead Chinese soldiers.
Montage with graphics sells Japanese propaganda claiming Japanese hatred as cause for Sino-Japanese War. Newspapers declaring the non-aggression pact between Republic of China and the Soviet Union. Animated map depicting how the Communist Soviet Union can encroach China’s territories. Narrator claims “It is in order to stop this power of evil, a real everlasting peace in Asia that Japan’s soldiers and sailors are giving their lives,” Japanese Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe reads a speech defending the Sino-Japanese War.
Japanese troops fight outside the walls of Nanking in China during the Second Sino-Japane War. Triumphal march of Japanese troops into Nanking. Japanese troops march into the city. Buildings and hills in the background. Cars parked on the roadside. Soldiers with Japanese flags. Aircraft in flight over the city. A soldier atop a tank. Troops march on the streets. The military band marching. Soldiers with the Japan Empire and Imperial Japanese flags. Troops stand by the roadside as more troops march in. Soldiers on horses and on foot. They march past houses and shops. They line up at attention. Officers on horses march between the troops lined up on either side of the road. Wounded soldiers. Officers and troops salute.
A man sailing boat with oars in the Pearl River, downtown Canton (Guangzhou), China. Anchored fishing boats in harbor. Fishing boats crowd the harbor area. Buildings in the background. Boat with hanging laundry sails in the river. A traditional Chinese Junk boat sailing in the Pearl River. Shoreline as seen from river.
A man enters the Health section of the League of Nations in Singapore. A doctor receives reports regarding contagious diseases in Asia. This information is passed to other countries, port authorities, and ships at sea. A League of Nations meeting regarding nutrition. A nurse accompanies a boy carried up steps on stretcher by paramedics. A nurse tends to a patient inside a hospital ward. A doctor or scientist works inside a chemistry laboratory on vaccines and drugs for healthcare. Montage showing Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and elevated view of pedestrians on a busy street in China.
Animated map showing Burma Road, a road linking Yunnan, China to Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar). Aerial view of the Burma Road. Part of the Burma Road on hillside. Chinese laborers clear away rocks. Laborers use pickaxes for digging rocks. Laborers working on Burma road use sledgehammer to chip away rocks. Chinese laborers’ children smash small stones while playing nearby. Chinese laborers working on Burma Road in mountain slope. Film narration by Ronald Reagan (future United States president).