British flag flying over a walled compound. Signs on compound wall in Russian and Chinese. French flag flies over a building of the "Thrift and Investment, Finance and Trust Corporation." A chinese man shines shoes of a Westerner. A Chinese traditional health practitioner works at a table covered with cloth containing an image of a human figure with various points on the body annotated. The cloth contains many other Chinese formulaic writings. He appears to be writing a prescription for a woman. Several Chinese boys play on a windswept sidewalk. An infant crawls behind them. Two Chinese women walk in a deserted street, with their toddler children. A bird sits in a cage hanging over the sidewalk. A horse and wagon stand at the curb, Two horses and wagons are seen at a curb with a foal apparently sleeping between them. Views of men playing Mahjong inside a sidewalk parlor. Others watch. Farmers filling barrels of water while their cattle-drawn wagons stand in a stream.
Homemade sign strung on a post in front of a house flying a Japanese flag. Japanese characters, beginning with characters for "Japan," written on a portal. Two women walk out of a compound. One carries a string instrument (possibly a sanxian). A gateway Topped by flag of Manchukuo. A cosmopolitan group of people enjoying themselves in a park with benches, trees and gardens. Closeup of several children sitting on a park bench. A shop showing Japanese and Manchurian paper flags. Soldiers drilling on parade field. Japanese officers and officials lined up in front of a walled compound. Two Japanese flags fly at the entrance. Scene shifts to inside the compound, where several soldiers receive awards, as others stand in formation, and several bystanders observe. Persons of various ethnic groups walk through a gateway, together. Camera pans across them as they stand holding booklets related to their collective education activity.
Pan of a military compound. A Unit of cavalry, carrying the flag of Manchukuo, exits a military base. A wind sock flies in breeze at airbase. Two Japanese military biplane aircraft take off. Japanese flag flying on very high flag pole. A well-tended military building, with sand bagged sentry post at the entrance. Japanese officers on horseback observe a troop of cavalry parading loosely along a dirt street. They carry the Japanese flag. Closeup of the senior officer saluting the passing troop. A line of Japanese Type 94 tankettes moves along a dirt street. Horses being loaded on a wooden ferry for transport across a river, as a type 94 tankette enters the water and proceeds along the river. vies of the flat ferry carrying the horses. three tankettes moving along in the river. A train at station platform. Japanese soldiers and others on the platform. Sign at station reads Manchuria, in Cyrillic and Chinese. Manchukuo flag atop train station building. A beach scene, with hills across the water. A sentry on a lookout tower atop a building. Mounted Japanese cavalrymen with their officers on a hill overlooking the water.
Flag of the Soviet-administered Chinese Eastern Railway, flying over the Harbin train station in Manckukuo. (It contains Manchukuo canton and small hammer, sickle, and star on the field.) Many cars waiting outside the station building. Overview of the city. Saint. Sofia Cathedral of Harbin seen clearly. Shoppers and pedestrians walking on crowded sidewalk under many electric power wires strung overhead. Japanese flag displayed at corner shop. Various ethnic peoples seen on sidewalks. Kitayskaya Street (China Street) lined with buildings and stores. Patrons seated on veranda of a restaurant overlooking the Songhua River. Boats on the river and bridge in far background. Closeup showing that some are houseboats in the river. Western persons in bathing attire on a sandy beach at the river. (No other ethnic groups are represented.) Sun sparkling on the water. Two Western men row a boat with a woman in the back seat. A couple of small day-sailor boats are seen under sail. View of railroad bridge over the Songhua River. A sidewheeler boat flying the Japanese Rising Sun Naval Ensign flag.
Several men stroll along a path in the park, on a warm day, in Harbin china. A pavilion is seen, decorated with small flags of many nations, including, among others: Japan; Turkey; the United states; Egypt; Greece; and Great Britain. (Although the United States and most other nations did not ever formally recognize the independent State of Manchukuo, the U.S. and others maintained consulates in Harbin and had a number of their citizens residing there.) Attendees walk to seats in an open theater in the park. It contains seats and benches. A formation of Japanese bi-wing bombers flies overhead. Tables for Manchukuo officials and special guests are on a raised platform. The backdrop is decorated with two crossed flags of the new Manchukuo, flanking a picture of its new leader, Manchurian former emperor of China, Aisin-Gioro Pu-Yi, also known as "Henry Pu-Yi" (or Puyi). The event proceeds with speeches and applause from the attendees. Two large Manchukuo flags are stretched out from the gateway of the park. A tram (street car) passes along tracks and powered by overhead electric wires. The tram is decorated with numerous small flags. Local people are seen going about their routine business on the streets. The flag of Manchuckuo flying on a flag pole.
A Japanse girl blows a whistle and a number of children run along a beach. Japanese children dressed in their uniforms carry a school bag as they move to school. Children play in the school ground. Principal conducts a staff meeting where he complaints about the behavior of a student.. A cleaner puts forward his point of view followed by a female and a male teacher,while one of the faculty members continue to doze through out meeting.Japanese schools are not well equipped and therefore the educational system has certain loopholes.As the meeting concludes teachers leave for their respective classrooms.One of the male teachers finds that students have drawn his sketch on the blackboard.
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