A Japanese Navy Minikaze class Destroyer departing from port to patrol in the Sea of Okhotsk. Japanese sailors dressed in rain gear wave from a pier. Closeup of the destroyer passing, with crew on deck, showing details clearly up to amidship. View from ship passing fairly makeship civilian waterfront of wood buildings, docks, and a small boat. Several Japanese flags are seen. The destroyer seen, again, passing the camera rapidly, turning to port, and steaming underway. View, from behind helmsman, on the bridge of the destroyer. Officers looking ahead through the bridge window. Officer issues steering orders to the helmsman who responds by turning the wheel. Sunlight glaring on the water. view of passing coastline and sea birds in flight. Silhouettes of crew member looking through telescopes and officer using binoculars. The destroyer approaches an oiler they tie up and and sailors dressed in overalls, connect a fuel line from one to the other. Officer steps from one ship to the other. View from the destroyer toward forward portside of the oiler. Lines between the ships visible. Officers and crew of the destroyer looking down as the two ships complete refueling and prepare to separate.
Japanese fishing fleet off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. Snowy mountains as seen from a ship. The fishing fleet around a Japanese Navy ship. Japanese fishermen demonstrate various kinds of nets off the coast of Kamchatka. Fishes caught in a net. A Japanese fishing boat underway. Fishermen aboard the boat. They remove fishes from the net.
First trans world flight in 1924 to the Kuril Islands in the Pacific Ocean. A Douglas World Cruiser in flight over the Kuril Islands and on coastal waters. American crewmen of Douglas World Cruiser. Crewmen work on DWC. A map depicts the trans world flight. DWC lands on water. American crewmen with Japanese women. The map demonstrates that Japan is readily accessible from the outside through various transcontinental air flights. A Japanese fishing boat underway.
Film opens with animated map showing Japan and its nearby Asian mainland neighbors. Arrows from Japan point to areas and islands that Japan considers part of the Japanese empire. In addition to Pacific islands, they include Asian mainland places, Manchuria, and the Sakhalin Islands. The map shows the Northern limit of Japan's territorial reach with a line drawn on the map at about 47 degrees North latitude. The map shows the reach of Japan's empire extending South to include all of Manchuria and in the Pacific to encompass all the scattered islands in the Pacific accessible to Japan. The map begins drawing a circular boundary to the East encompassing all these areas of the Japanese Empire. Film shifts to Japanese navy warships patrolling the Eastern Pacific boundaries of the Empire, and bi-wing aircraft flying in formation overhead. Rising sun symbol seen on underwings of biplanes. Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō who was later Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Japanese Fleet during the Russo-Japanese War is seen seen as a young Admiral in 1895. Next, he is seen in 1934 at the age of 86, coming out of a barn and walking toward the camera. He is bent over and walks slowly, dressed in woolens and wearing thick eye glasses. (He died on May 30, 1934.)
A film honors Japanese war heroes of the Russo-Japanese War. Graves of Japanese soldiers in Japan. A tombstone of a Japanese soldier. A smoking volcano across a water body. Smoke billows up from the volcanic eruption.
Japanese Emperor Hirohito reviews his battle fleet in Yokohama, Japan. Emperor Hirohito of Japan, dressed in Naval white uniform, and carrying a sword, walks past an honor guard of Japanese sailors who present arms in salute. The Emperor renders a hand salute. He is accompanied by high ranking military officers. Scene shifts to Crowds of Japanese civilians watching the proceedings from a stone bulwark at waters edge. Next, the Emperor and entourage descend a gangplank and board a Navy launch, displaying a large Naval Rising Sun ensign. Some large freighters and small boats are seen in the harbor. View from the dock as the launch pulls away. A sailor and a Marine are standing at attention in foreground. Closeup of the Japanese battleship Kirishima. View of the navy launch as sailors raise the Imperial flag of the Emperor on its bow. View from deck of the battleship Kirishima, where sailors in dress whites stand at attention while she fires a salute with one of her guns. View from her port side, as the Kirishima continues firing gun salutes. Gun smoke obscures the ship. back on shore, the embankment is filled with crowds of spectators. Many carry umbrellas. View of the battleship Kirishima from another ship, where sailors line the deck railing at attention. Japanese military aircraft fly overhead in formations above the Kirishima. Glimpse of a column of Japanese Navy capital ships.
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