A solitary Japanese Army sentry walks his post along a seawall in a coastal area under Japanese military control in World War II. Local people go about their daily activities in a city under Japanese administration. A Japanese military policeman, wearing a white armband, directs traffic. A Japanese Army officer converses with another Japanese military policeman. A passenger speeds past them in a rickshaw. A Japanese military officer waves a loaded truck onward. Japanese replace old buildings and install new communication lines in a city. Japanese military engineers survey and Japanese troops build lines of communication, including a railroad bridge. Japanese officials scrutinize credentials of people at a checkpoint. A Japanese soldier searches a man. People are waved through a checkpoint after their credentials are reviewed. Workers in a textile plant. Laborers at construction sites use carrying poles to transport materials. Other laborers carrying sacks of material on their backs, as they unload a barge at a waterfront. Glimpse of a Japanese controlled harbor.
First scene shows Japanese soldiers in a landing craft displaying their Naval Rising Sun flag, during World War 2. Other landing craft are behind them in the background. Closeup of Japanese soldiers transferring from small boats to climb aboard a transport ship. Japanese soldiers, in small boat, watch the large transport ship leaving the harbor. Brief glimpse of Japanese troops rushing ashore from landing craft, followed by them climbing up a concrete structure with black smoke billowing in the background. Map reflecting Japanese territorial ambitions in the Pacific, emanating from Japan.
Zenbei Horikiri, the new Ambassador of Japan to the Kingdom of Italy, presents his credentials to King Victor Emmanuel III in Rome, Italy during World War II. Hokiri stands with an Italian officer during the ceremony at the Quirinal Palace. To his right, behind him, similarly dressed, is Shun'ichi Kase,secretary to Japanese Foreign Minister Yōsuke Matsuoka. (Shun'ichi later served as chargé d’affaires in Italy commencing in 1943.) Japanese and Italian officers are part of the two-nation entourage that emerges from the palace following the event. They proceed down the steps of the Quirinal Palace (Palazzo del Quirinale, Piazza del Quirinale, 00187 Roma RM, Italy) and across the Piazza del Quirinale, where camera shows a glimpse of one of the statues at the Obelisk and Fountain of Castor and Pollux (containing sculptures of Castor and Pollux as horse tamers). Next, a motorcade of the officials' cars drives out of the palace complex, past two guard posts.
A promotional documentary justifying Japanese involvement in World War II. Equipment and supplies are unloaded from Allied ships at Chinese harbor. Tanks and containers are hoisted. Animated map shows hostile forces encircling Japan.
A promotional documentary justifying Japanese involvement in World War II. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister of UK Winston Churchill on board HMS Prince of Wales underway in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland during Atlantic Conference, working on the Atlantic Charter. U.S. Army Chief of Staff George Marshall and other officers stand behind the leaders. President Roosevelt as he imposes embargo on oil and gasoline exports to Japan.
Guidelines for proper maintenance of cars. Japan on globe holds supply of rubber to other parts of world. A rubber plant. Scientist in a research lab works to synthesize artificial rubber. Cars and taxis on roads. Mechanic lays beneath a car and checks tires, breaking system and wheel alignment. A deformed wheel due to improper alignment. Man realigns tires. Animated diagram shows swapping of tires