Activities of Japanese people in Japan. People go in Public Health Clinic. Women sit in line at clinic. Nurse places thermometer in a woman's mouth. A lady doctor examines a boy with stethoscope. Boys receive chest X-Rays. Little children weighed in baskets by nurses. Dentist examines little girl's teeth. Teacher lectures at a Nursing class and nurses under training take notes. Nurses check patients' blood pressure. Nurse brings tray of food to woman on bed. Farms on hill side. Men and women plow farms. Water besides the farm. United States freighter at port. Fertilizer sacks are lowered down to port. Farmers spread fertilizers in a farm. They use their feet to mix fertilizer with soil. Horse drawn thrasher in the farm. Men and women sow rice plants in water filled paddies. Laborers dig new hilly land for re plantation. Farmers trained in farming school for practical work. They plow and spray chemical.
Activities of Japanese people in Japan. An old Japanese man reads Japanese newspaper. Poster on lamp post about land possession. People at polling booth. They cast their votes in the booth and put ballet papers in box. Surveyors work on land for dividing it. They measure land. A man goes to an office and receives papers. Farmers pull out radishes from farm and make pile after washing. Women cut cabbages from farms. Farmers cut wheat crops, make bundles of it and load it onto carts. Men and women work on thrasher. Water filled rice paddies. Boats in sea. Men go to sea for fishing. They pull up net full of fishes. Boats and fishes at sea shore. Men shows tokens to an official, he collects it. People go to cooperative homes at night. They gather there to talk and discuss about their problems and share their views. Men on a boat in sea.
Industry and production activities of Japanese people working in Japan. Smoke rise from chimneys at industrial factory area. Factory workers go towards plant. Woman works at a machine in cotton plant. Man paints on dish. Woman feeds flax into machine. Men cut down trees in forest. Wood logs are rolled to water. Machine chops wood to pulp. Filled vats ready for paper processing. Hot melted metal at steel plant. Worker takes out hot metal rod. Workers in a car factory. Workers assemble parts of truck at automotive factory. Ready vehicles come out of factory in line. Train pulls into elevated subway station. People get off train. An electric train arrives. Persons of management and labor representatives sit and discuss for common good. Workers at shipyard. Ready and decorated ship launched in sea. People wave. Ship heading for New York harbor. New York skyline in the background.
Activities of Japanese people in Japan. People buy newspaper at newsstand. Election campaign activities. People listen to political candidates. Japanese politicians campaigning in Tokyo. People go to polling booth and cast their votes. Woman puts ballet paper in box. People watch tabulation board for results. Man stand on ladder at the board. The National Diet Building. Emperor Hirohito on throne. Emperor Hirohito addresses the National Diet. He reads the declaration. Speakers on rostrum. The 1947 Japanese Constitution opened. Pages are turned over. Officials enter the Japanese Supreme Court. The court in session. Police instructor lectures police and they make notes. A policeman helps two civilians at a Koban or police box in Sukiyabashi in Yurakucho, Tokyo. Traffic police on crossroad controls traffic. A policeman picks up a ball on road and returns it to baseball player. Witness comes in court and bows. Japanese politicians in meeting around table.
Japanese women welcome GIs in Japan. Japanese women wearing traditional kimonos dance on a dockside welcoming GIs from the United States. GIs on the ship approaching the dock watch the women dance. The women performing an angel dance wave small U.S. flags. The soldiers, bound to Korea as replacements, disembark from the ship holding their baggages.
United States Navy air craft carrier Boxer arrives the Yokosuka harbor, Japan with planes on the flight deck including F4U Corsairs. American sailors carry the wounded on stretcher down the gangway and place them in an ambulance.