An orientation film titled ' Westward is Bataan' about Japanese capture of the Philippines and the Americans surrender during World War II. Scenes of destruction from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, United States on December 7, 1941. U.S. ships being strafed and explosions occur. Excerpts from Japanese newsreel showing surrender of U.S. forces at Corregidor. United States soldiers in Corregidor, Philippines. U.S. Army General Jonathan Wainwright meets Japanese officers to surrender during the Battle of Corregidor. Japanese soldiers near Heam Battery on May 6, 1942. Japanese soldiers remove the American flag from a pole to raise the Japanese flag after the surrender. People celebrate Japanese victory in Tokyo, Japan. In Manila people gather along the streets as they wave the Japanese flags to welcome Japanese General Masaharu Homma. General Homma enters a building. Japanese soldiers parade as they carry the remains of the soldiers who lost their lives during the Battle of Corregidor. The boxes carrying the remains of the dead Japanese soldiers being handed over to Japanese women at a ceremony.
A sign in Japanese outside Korakuen Stadium (1-3-61 Koraku, Tokyo, Japan) in Tokyo, Japan during WWII. 30,000 young people gather at the Gungo Houkou Patriotic Tournament in Tokyo. Crowds fill the stadium. The flags of the Japanese Empire are on display. Camera pans to reveal view of the National Bayukendo Training Tokyo Tournament. Groups of college students lunge with their wooden swords for Kendo, also known as Shinai, at the Yoyogi parade ground. War veterans guide the students in kendo.
Japanese dignitaries attend assembly to form new cabinet in Japan during World War II. A car drives out from a building. Japanese dignitaries in the car. People standing near the building and the car. Japanese Imperial Army General Hideki Tojo gets out of the car and enters a building. Prime Minister of Japan Prince Fumimaro Konoe, General of Japanese Imperial Army Hideki Tojo and other Japanese dignitaries seated and confer. Cars parked in a line. A drum played. A man speaks. Newsmen and reporters outside the building making notes. A newsman gives information on telephone. Japanese ewsman says “Moshi moshi…” as he begins the call. Prince Konoe, General Tojo and other Japanese dignitaries arrive at the Imperial Diet to form new cabinet. Photographers take pictures of the arriving dignitaries. Japanese politicians such as Shozo Murata, Yosuke Matsuoka, Naoki Hoshino, arrive at the Imperial Diet (1 Chome-7-1 Nagatachō, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-0014, Japan). The Prince, General Tojo and other dignitaries pose for photograph.
Officials from Inner Mongolia visit Tokyo, Japan during World War II. Prince Teh and Foreign Minister Ch'u Min-i of Inner Mongolia arrives by train in Tokyo and are greeted by Japanese officers. The Prince and the Foreign Minister walk through a crowd at the station. An official speaks before microphone.
A film dramatizes the relay of intelligence to Japan from Honolulu, Hawaii prior to Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II. Japanese spy activities in Honolulu shows a Japanese man sending information to Japan by short wave radio signals. A Japanese fisherman relays information. Shows how information is relayed by sending a diplomatic pouch to Tokyo, Japan from the Japanese consul in Honolulu. An American citizen talks about Japan sending Japanese priests to the U.S. Japanese people listen to Japanese radio broadcast in a house. Two men, one enacts as Uncle Sam and other one as an American citizen. They talk to each other about Japanese people. Landscape of Hawaii showing Diamond Head.
Funeral services for Japanese General Baron Mineo Osumi in Tokyo during World War II. A man carries a box, containing ashes of Japanese General Osumi, followed by other men at an airfield in Tokyo. All men dressed in black. Japanese pilots salute. A Japanese Buddhist monk bows in front of the pictures of Japanese Generals (killed along with General Osumi after their plane was shot down by Chinese guerrillas) with boxes of ashes placed in front of them. Portrait of General Mineo Osumi. Japanese General Hisaichi Terauchi leads relatives and officers.