Japanese films show school activities to explain the school system and deficiencies are noted by narrator. The films emphasize the school's role to develop nationalism in Japan. Lunch time: Children wash their hands and come out from the building to take lunch. Children served vegetables and fish in food. Emphasis on physical culture by calisthenics and gymnastics: Children run for exercise. Children do physical exercise. Children learn the correct methods of formal exercise. Children are taught to exercise for strong and good health, which is necessary for soldier. Children do calisthenics under trained teacher. Children do gymnastic to build body and make formation. Boys doing calisthenics. (World War II period; anti-Japanese propaganda).
Damage caused due to bombing raids on Tokyo. Burned houses, ruined buildings,burned trees and massive devastation in Tokyo soon after the end of World War 2. Totally demolished Shiba district. Skeleton of a large building in Shiba district of Tokyo city. Rubble and ruins everywhere.
Skeleton of a large building. Scenes of destruction in Japan soon after end of World War 2 fighting. Japanese buildings and small shacks. Japanese civilians tear down air raid shelters in Shiba district of Tokyo city. Scenes of rubble and damage from war bombing. Damaged Buddhist club building.
Shows Japanese citizens waiting for a street car or trolley, and men hauling log on cart. Scenes of destruction and poverty in Japan after the end of World War II. Damaged laundry in Shiba district of Tokyo city. Destroyed Japanese washing machine.
Two people head to the gate of Zōjōji Temple (Zōjōji 4 Chome-7-35 Shibakoen, Minato City, Tokyo 105-0011, Japan), in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese pedestrians pass by the busy street where Zōjōji Temple is located. Stone birdbaths can be found on the left side of the Zōjōji Temple. A pigeon in bird bath. A monument stands where remains of beggars are buried. Camera shifts from temple bird bath to the monument for beggars. Entrance to cemetery of Tokugawa Hidetada (1579- 1632), the second Shogun of Japan. Temporary Zōjōji temple after the original building was destroyed by air raids during World War 2. Door to the temporary temple. A statue of Buddha in temple.
Statue of Kannon, the Buddhist bodhisattva associated with mercy. Zōjōji temple (4 Chome-7-35 Shibakoen, Minato City, Tokyo 105-0011, Japan) and its vegetable garden show extensive damage from air raid bombings during World War 2. Rubble is scattered all over the temple grounds. A bell in Zōjōji temple. Building housing the bell shows damage. The Shiba Tōshō-gū (4 Chome-8-10 Shibakoen, Minato City, Tokyo 105-0011, Japan), enshrining the first Japanese Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, located beside the Zōjōji temple shows similar damage.
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