Imperial Japanese Army troops advance on Changsha, Hunan Province, China during World War II. View of boats in a lake. Japanese bombers bombard at the mountains and field in China. Explosions over the mountains. Japanese troops go with artillery to attack. The troops firing artillery. Wreckage and debris. Invading Japanese troops bombard and fire. Battles ensue and Japanese win. Exterior of a building. Japanese troops on horses.
C-47 is unloaded in Japan. Enlisted men seated on wing of C-47. Insignia 'Tokyo Trolley'. Japanese soldier cranks truck. Truck backs up to C-47. Soldiers unload equipment. Japanese soldiers and enlisted men load truck. Truck pulls away.
Japanese civilians and military watch American soldier using bulldozer to clear debris and begin reconstruction during American military occupation of Japan. Japanese soldiers and laborers working to clear the detritus of war and rebuild. Japanese businessman discussing reconstruction with an American military officer in his office. Signs in office reading: "Bid Room, P&C Div, Mr. P.E. Pagliocca." Japanese businessmen obtaining U.S. requests for bids on reconstruction projects. Bessemer Converter is charged and fired in Japanese steel plant. Hot steel Ingot is rolled out on cart. Hot ribbon of steel in placed into wire extrusion machine.
Parents take a newborn baby for a Miyamairi (literally "shrine visit") to pray for good health at a Shinto shrine in Japan, during World War II. A Japanese man writes his child’s name using a calligraphy pen. Man displays his child’s name in front of an altar. A Japanese couple takes their newborn child to a Shinto shrine. The couple and the child’s grandmother sit in front of a clerk. The grandmother holds the child as mother sits next to her. The Shinto priest recites a prayer and swings a tamagushi right and left. The priest gives holy sake to the mother for the child. She feeds sake (symbolically) to child and then she drinks it. Priest folds the paper of Japanese writing and gives it to the family.
Tokyo, Japan before World War II. Views of bridge over river and birds fly near the Tokyo Imperial Palace. View of the Niju-bashi Bridge. Flock of birds flying in Tokyo. Japanese crowd in streets and residential area. Many views of modern buildings for government, offices, businesses, and residential areas of Chiyoda, Tokyo. National Diet Building (1 Chome-7-1 Nagatachō, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-0014, Japan) in Chiyoda City. Embassy buildings of foreign governments. Point of view street views of busy Tokyo streets as seen from a moving vehicle or streetcar (beneath streetcar or trolley wires). View of buildings at Ginza district. View of the iconic Wako Clock Tower (4 Chome-5-11 Ginza, Chuo City, Tokyo 104-0061, Japan) in Ginza. Night views of lighted neon signs in busy Tokyo urban center.
Views of Japan soon before World War II. Animated map shows Osaka and movement to Kobe. Elevated sweeping views of Kobe Japan harbor, ships at harbor, freight loaded in ship and ship 'Argentina Maru'. Streets of downtown Kobe with buildings and shops, and 1930s automobiles passing by pedestrians. Dock and harbor views in Kobe. Goods loaded onto ships at harbor for transport. Boxes being hoisted by cranes onto ships. Japanese citizens in passenger cruise ship wave the flag of Japan. School children in uniform stand on docks and wave at departing ship as it leaves dock. View of ocean water churning behind ocean going passenger cruise ship underway. wish the troops in the ship 'Argentina Maru'. View of sea and cherry blossoms.
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