Sweet potatoes substituted for rice in Japan. A man peels off sweet potatoes. Man and woman boil the sweet potatoes. Cooks prepare food with sweet potatoes. Packets of food. Woman gives a packet of food to people. People eat food. Two women eat food.
Train collides at Shinetsu in Japan. View of collided trains. People and soldiers stand near collided trains. Railway tracks. View of collided trains and sign board on it. Sign board of '29813' on engine. Soldiers stand above engine and inspect. Wreckage after collision. People stand near train. (World War II period).
Modernization of Japan through World War II. Japanese civilians seen. Japanese civilians bow down to the Superiors. Many scenes of Japanese military and cilvilian persons as they bow to others. Japanese girls sold by their fathers working in factories. Women work in the rice fields. Men wearing local hats seen. Japanese peasants working hard. Japanese people use telephones in office and living in traditional Japanese homes. Simply furnished Japanese homes without chairs, windows and beds seen. Japanese family wearing kimonos, eating food. Japanese men in kokumin-fuku worker uniforms working in a factory producing war materiel and armament for the war effort in World War II.
Evolution of Japan. Japanese people work in fields. Japanese civilians break stones. Farmers push carts in fields. They carry goods baskets on their shoulders. Farmers carry water. People pull rope and cable winch in fields. People work in fields.
A film of the Army-Navy Screen Magazine about the military cadets trained at the Imperial Japanese Army Academy or Rikugun Shikan GakkÅ in Ichigaya, Tokyo, Japan during World War II. Japanese cadets fight with swords. A trainer teaches the cadets hand signals. The military cadets practice commands. The cadets work on tank barrels. A cavalry cadet makes a horse jump over a hurdle. Armored forces cadets drive tanks. Engineering cadets lays wooden logs to make a floating bridge. Trucks driven on the floating bridge over a river. Artillery division cadets learn to fire from artillery. A classroom training of the cadets. A bombardier observes a moving map. The pilot gets into the cockpit of an aircraft. A Japanese aircraft in flight.
A film of the Army-Navy Screen Magazine about a tactical tour to the Manchurian battlefield in Japan during World War II. The cadets note as taught during a tour to the Manchurian battlefield. An instructor talks about the battlefield to the cadets. The cadets bow in front of a tomb. The cadets climb a hill. Two cadets read a book in a train. The cadets fire artillery. The officer cadets climb a hill and advance over a grassland. The cadets move past a floating narrow bridge and advance riding on horses.