Speeches held during May Day demonstrations in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese laborers, agrarians and white collar workers gather and listen to a speaker in the Imperial Park. The speaker on a makeshift stand is Chairman Shingoro Shimagami. A group of workers listens to the speaker. The demonstrators sing 'Song of the Red Flag'. The speakers on the stand direct the singing.
May Day demonstrations in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese laborers, agrarians and white collar workers leave an assembly area and march along a road in the Imperial Park. Workers from Sunamachi Steel Works march. The workers march. A group of demonstrators has a pep meeting. The workers sitting on the ground listen to a speaker who is on the top of a police box. The workers wave red flags.
Ruins in Hiroshima, Japan after World War II. The entrance to a Savings Bank which is set up and doing business in a light wooden structure built inside the shell of the original bank building. A Japanese man pulls a cart along a road which has been partially cleared. A man walks through debris of a collapsed building. A Japanese man cleans away rubble from his property, preparatory to planting his garden and erecting his new home. A Japanese telephone maintenance man repairs lines on a telephone pole. A group of Japanese children collects sea shells near a bridge along the fringe of Motoyasu River.
Activities at a Japanese newspaper office in Hiroshima, Japan after World War II. A typesetters' rack shows several typesetters at work pick out the Japanese characters by hand. An entire page is typeset and is ready for press. A translation editor's desk where several American magazines lay on the desk. A giant press starts rolling and printing the newspaper. The finished paper comes out of the press. Two Japanese men engaged in sorting the completed newspaper. A pressman looks on.
Ruins in Hiroshima, Japan after World War II. Japanese pedestrians, traffic and trolley cars move past the destroyed Agricultural Society Building in the background. Several Japanese women dry green seaweed on a line. A group of Japanese children salvages small pieces of tiles. They use a rail spike to pry the tiles loose. A group of Japanese laborers loads corrugated sheet metal scrap on a truck, preparatory to salvage.
A funeral procession in Nagasaki, Japan. The funeral procession moves ahead. A woman carries a small box wrapped in a white cloth in which are the bones of the departed.