Tokyo, Japan before the Second World War. Elegant, modern salons. Japanese people wearing Western clothes having coffee at a sidewalk café. Coffee is poured into a cup. View of Tokyo Station. Passengers at Tokyo Station waiting for trains and leaving in trains. Clock shows time. A train leaves Tokyo Station. View of Tokyo Haneda International Airport (Hanedakuko, Ota City, Tokyo 144-0041, Japan). Airline passengers board a Japan Air Transport plane on tarmac at Tokyo Haneda International Airport. Plane takes off. Mountains shown including Mount Fuji.
Young Japanese women perform on a stage at a theater in Japan. Japanese dancing girls wave Italian flags on the stage. They dance with parasols (dance umbrellas) that are painted with Axis power country symbols of Japan, Germany, and Italy. The parasols have Nazi German, Italian, and Japanese emblems on them.
Men and women workers exercising outside a factory in Japan, prior to World War 2. A steam whistle blows atop a tall tower and all the workers rush to enter the factory. View of Commercial industry in Japan prior to World War II heavy smoke rising from numerous stacks at an industrial site. Women working inside automated thread spinning factory where it is wound upon large spools. sheets of fabric being dispensed in folds as women tend them. A table full of toy metal airplanes. Women winding them up and testing to assure that they run properly.
Opening scene shows Keio University (2 Chome-15-45 Mita, Minato City, Tokyo 108-8345, Japan) in Tokyo, Japan, before World War II. Six students walk side-by-side toward the camera. Next, they are seen in rowing attire, carrying their racing shell (a sculling boat) above their heads, and then placing it gently into a river. View from Coxwain's position, of rowers pulling on their oars. Scene shifts to view above the river as two sculling boats, each with eight rowers, compete in a race. A launch carrying an umpire follows the racing boats.
Scenes in two major Japanese attractions near Tokyo- Yokohama port and Mt. Fuji. Animated map depicting Tokyo and Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. View of the Yokohama seaport (Yamashitacho, Naka Ward, Yokohama, Kanagawa 231-0023, Japan). Freight is unloaded from cargo ships. A ship sails on Tokyo Bay. Animated map shows Yokohama and Mount Fuji, located in Shizuoka and Yamanashi Prefectures. View of Mt. Fuji with its famous snow cap. A steam train passes over Mt. Fuji. A man rows a small boat on one of the lakes near Mt. Fuji.
A quick glance at Japan. Animated map shows Nagoya. A panorama of Nagoya, people go to panorama. Views of types of architecture. Pottery manufacture: men at work in manufacturing factory of pottery. Pottery is placed for drying process. A potter makes pot on pottery wheel. Woman paints the pot. Factory workers eat food. Display of pottery. Locomotive: Interior of locomotive factory. Workers at machine and locomotive is manufactured.