United States Navy sailors and Japanese girls out for a stroll in front of the Imperial palace in Tokyo, Japan, a few months after the end of World War 2. Buildings in the background. They sit and talk near the palace. They look at a diary. A sailor reads the diary. A girl writes down something in the diary.
Japanese aircraft being destroyed by antiaircraft fire from U.S. warships and by U.S. carrier-based aircraft near Tokyo, Japan, in World War 2.
Air and Naval gunfire attacks by American Task Force against Tokyo, Japan, during World War 2. A Destroyer in the background fires its main battery. Battleship underway fires to the starboard. Fighter aircraft take off from carrier deck. Group of U.S. SB2Cs (Helldiver) in formation. Two U.S. Grumman F6F hellcats in flight. TBM Avengers in flight. Mount Fujiyama seen above cloud cover. Japanese installations on ground being struck. Noticeable absence of Japanese defensive actions.
Workers handle Japanese treasure at a warehouse in Tokyo, Japan. Workers and U.S. troops at the warehouse. U.S. troops supervise the operation. (World War II period).
Japanese cabinet ministers and the Prime Minister pose in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese cabinet ministers come out of the Prime Minister's residence and walk forward. The ministers pose for pictures. Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida poses. Former Prime Minister Baron Kijuro Shidehara, cinematographer Takao Saito and Estujiro Uehara pose. Tsunojiro Hiratsuka and Jiro Hoshijima stand. Seiichi Omura, Tanzan Ishibashi and Hiroo Wada smile. Sadskichi Hitotsumatsu and Dr. Tokutaro Aimura pose. Yoshinari Kawai and Kotaro Tanaka stand and smile. Prime Minister Yoshida and other cabinet members in a press conference.
Japanese Emperor Hirohito visits his father's tomb in Tokyo, Japan, after World War II. Mountain ranges. Emperor Hirohito arrives at the tomb of his father, Emperor Taisho, located in Hachiozi-City, west suburbs of Tokyo. Emperor Hirohito steps from his car. Officers greet and receive him. They proceed down the steps and visit the tomb. Trees in the background. (Note: Upon his death in 1989, Emperor Hirohito was also buried at the same sacred precincts near Emperor Taisho's tomb.)