Japanese workers make fans in Kyoto, Japan. A worker shows a Japanese fan making method. The worker saws bamboo in short pieces and splits the bamboo into narrow stripes. He drills holes through each blade of the fan frame. The bamboo stripes. The worker bevels off edges and uses a wood chisel and a plane. He sands down and smoothen off each individual frame. The worker and the tools of his trade. The worker finishes the wood frame for a fan. He then places a shaft in the end of the fan and places finished fan frames on the ground to dry in the sun.
Dock activities in Beppu, Japan. A wharf in the inner harbor along the main street of Beppu. The wharf shows many fishing crafts docked in. Huge mountains surrounding Beppu in the background. Japanese workmen load wooden buckets on one of the several vessels docked at the wharf. A ship docked at the wharf. Japanese workmen load a truck with kindling wood which was unloaded from one of the ships. A hot spring pond in Yawata, Kyoto which has been reinforced with concrete and decorated by placing a devil in the center and one of the Buddha gods to one side of the pond. Sulpfur water boils and steam rises. A country road in the foothills above Beppu shows a Japanese woman pounding rice on a straw mat to remove husk from the kernels.
Damage caused to the city of Tsuruga, Japan in World War II. The built up section of the city area which suffered from incendiary attack of World War II. Various houses and buildings in the area. Damage caused to the city and the harbor area. The effect of damage to the Oshima Naval Oil Storage at Tokuyama.
Firefighting equipment at a steel mill and oil refinery in Otaka, Japan. A reinforced concrete shelter is used to protect the fire fighting equipment at the steel mill. The fire fighting equipment being towed out of its underground revetment at the oil refinery. A Japanese worker removes human excrement from a out house for use as fertilizer. Grain being weighed and measured by merchant in Kyoto. People in a line wait for their ration of grains. A wagonsmiths shop in Kyoto.
Dwarf tree industry at Kikuji near Niihama, Japan. The method used to dwarf trees is wrapping the limbs with copper wires for three years period, then an additional four years period when the wire is wrapped around trunks and rims. The nursery man Mr. Iwasaki applies copper wires to the branches.
Iwaki Cement Plant located along the harbor coastline of Tsuruga Harbor, Japan. Limestone comes from hills in the far background.