As film begins, two Red Cross women in uniforms are seen conversing with two separate women passengers in their cabins, below decks on the Swedish ship M.S. Gripsholm, as it prepares to depart on a voyage from New Jersey, to repatriate Japanese Nationals and Issei to Japan during World War 2. A worker climbs a stack of bags of grain and carries one away. Views of stores of provisions, including many cases of drinks, fresh fruit, and vegetables aboard the ocean liner. View from ship's deck of armed U.S. Navy sailors, lined at intervals the entire length of the ship. Armed Customs officers thoroughly examining luggage of passengers who will be boarding the ship and stacking those that passed inspection. Another view of the Customs officers screening baggage.
A U.S. submarine at a port in the United States on its return from Japan during World War II. Crew members aboard the submarine. Some of the men hold puppies. A man works on a naval gun aboard the submarine. Crew members paint the submarine at the port. Japanese flags on the conning tower of the submarine. Officers stand against the conning tower.
Rural population of Japan engaged in war production and support of Japan during World War 2. Japanese rural area shows farm families outside native huts. Women cook food, pump water and wash vegetables in creek. Mud and wood huts with straw roofs. Farmers in field. Harvesting in farm. Lumbers piled up outside a building. Civilian men work with lumber. Women prepare handicrafts outside house. Home industries. Interiors show workers at work including men, women, and children working in war effort. Japanese family eats food and elderly Japanese woman smokes a pipe. Japanese people walk through rubble and debris after Great Kanto earthquake of 1923. Shows areas of rubble and workers digging through earthquake rubble, along with United States citizens involved in effort on the ground and through material relief support from America.
Japanese people work to help the soldiers during World War II. Interior of a Japanese munitions factory. Young men in Kokumin-Fuku uniform being trained in mechanical or engineering field. Young men work on machines and equipment in munitions factory. Several coal trucks travel out of the entrance of a mine. Interior of a cast-steel factory. Women work in the factory. Procedures of canning rice. Rice being cooked in a large pot.
Japanese people work to help the soldiers during World War II. Number of people train horses for army use. Houses in the foreground. Men on horses as they move across a waterway.
Young Japanese trained to become soldiers. Japanese school children march along street. Children bow. Small children do calisthenics. They are lead in group exercises. Japanese zero plane in flight. Many charred dead bodies along road. Refugees flee with belongings. Debris lay on street. Dead body carried on pole. Children file into school building. Children learn to write in classrooms. Models of Japanese warships and planes displayed to children. (World War II period).