Japanese and Americans participate together in many activities of sports for international friendship after military occupation of Japan. Boys play football. Spectators pack a stadium to watch swimming competition and water polo match. Flags of USA and Japan. Swimmers compete in race using butterfly stroke.
Trade fair in Osaka, Japan. Woman seated on table. Little Japanese girl plays with a doll sitting in a high chair. The girl pretends to feed the baby. Cans of Gerber Baby food sit on the tray. The little girl picks them up and holds them. Large numbers of well-dressed Japanese people enter the trade fair. A large building in background holds sign reading " Industry Hall." Crowds enter a pavilion with large sign reading "USA" in front. A fountain and flowers decorate the pavilion. Visitors view themselves in closed circuit television, as they enter the pavilion.
Trade fair in Osaka, Japan. 'Exhibit information office' in the American (USA) pavilion. A Japanese woman seated at reception desk in the information office. Two Japanese men visit the office. The receptionist displays magazines and journals to the men. She comes out with cold drinks (Coca Cola) and serves them to visitors.
American pavilion at Trade fair in Osaka, Japan. Large crowd of Japanese visitors entering the USA pavilion. They proceed up a ramp leading past pool and fountains and landscaping at inside entrance of the pavilion. Many Japanese visitors crowd around around a stall where American women exhibit U.S. prepared food products and demonstrate their use and preparation. A Japanese woman interpreter translates for the benefit of the Japanese visitors. American food items and fresh baked products are displayed.
"The Roaring 20s" or "the Jazz Age" with most scenes being from Berlin Germany (but this is not obvious in some of the shots, which could be in the USA or elsewhere). Couples dance the "Charleston" at night club in Berlin, Germany. Views of jazz bands playing. African American man dancing with Thompson's Band. Newspapers chronicle the political events of the era, including Hitler's struggle for political power.
1st Anniversary of Japan Bombing celebrated at Tinian Island, Marianas Island. Commanding General Henry Harley 'Hap' Arnold, Army Air Force and 20th Bomber Command disembark from USA C-54 Aircraft. Officers of the 5th bombardment wing greet him. Arnold and staff board a jeep. (World War II period).
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