A Japanese poet composes a haiku poem. The poet writes a Haiku from his desk. He is using a traditional brush when writing the poem. Slide with haiku reads “Blind with memories, I mounted to the runs, and all was eglantines in flower”.
Geisha or geiko, or traditional Japanese performing artists and entertainers. Young Geisha practice their dance with umbrellas outdoors.
A doctor examines children in Japan. Children and their parents wait in line as a doctor uses a stethoscope on one of the patients. Japanese babies sitting on a small bench. Young children playing with blocks while daycare teachers watch. Youth wearing kimonos enter and leave the school gates. Japanese children play in slides, swings in the playground. Children perform mass calisthenics outdoors in the morning. Male and female students wearing Japanese attire attend English lesson in classroom. A girl stands up and corrects the sentence written on the blackboard. Japanese boys study chemistry inside a school laboratory. They examine test tubes, write down notes, and raise their hands.
Recreation activities in Japan. Japanese people rowing on boats in a lake. Athletics as a major part of recreational activities in Japan. Japanese men hiking up a snowy mountain. Japanese boys ice skating in a park. Two men engage in judo. Athletes participate in swimming and running competitions. Japanese children playing different sports in school ground.
Title card notes that Babe Ruth got a 'hero's ovation' when he came to Japan, leading an American all-star team that visited after the 1934 season. Brief shot of some team members shows Ruth in center, manager Connie Mack on right, and several other players. Game action at unidentified Japanese stadium. Japanese people watch the game featuring Japanese baseball teams and players. (Note: Baseball was introduced to Japan in 1872 by Horace Wilson, an English professor at the Kaisei Gakko School in Tokyo. The first baseball team was called the Shimbashi Athletic Club and was established in 1878.)
Shintoism, Buddhism and Confucianism are three main religions practiced in Japan during the Shōwa era. Japanese women teach their children how to perform the Chōzu-ya (a Shinto ritual for washing hands and mouth) using a water ladle at a chōzubachi (large water-filled basin) outside a Buddhist temple. Children and women wash their hands before entering temple. Japanese worshippers bow inside a Buddhist temple. A stone statue of Buddha outdoors. Women bow in front of the main altar. A group of Shinto priests posing outside a building.
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