Wooden logs bridge construction by Japanese soldiers in Kiukiang, China during Second Sino Japanese War. Japanese soldiers stand at two boats. They work on a wooden structure. They hold its ropes. Two soldiers stand at the upper side of the structure and tie ropes. Soldier stands with a rifle in his hand. Soldiers work at rail tracks.
Wooden bridge being constructed by Japanese soldiers in Kiukiang, China during the Second Sino Japanese War. Two soldiers stand and keep an vigil over the field. Soldiers walk in trenches. Soldiers point rifles and fire. Soldiers at position behind a hole in a wall with machine gun. Soldiers come down hill. They carry Japanese flag and rifles.
A documentary titled 'Soybeans at Home'. View of soybean plants in Manchuria, China. Leaves and soybeans on the plants. Soybean cultivated fields form 25% of the total cultivated area in Manchuria. A map showing Manchuria extending from 390 to 530 north latitude from about central Illinois north almost to Hudson Bay in Canada.
A documentary titled 'Persimmon Harvest' in Chihli province in China. A few men outside a building with baggages. The men load the baggages on to a donkey. Persimmon orchards in Chihli province. A few men and children beside the trees in an orchard. The trees in the orchard on which seedlings of 'Black Date' or wild persimmon (Diospyros lotus) are used as stalks upon which the commercial varieties are worked. A man holds a fruiting branch of wild persimmon in his left hand and the fruit of a commercial variety in his right hand. A man beside a tree bark which shows the union of wild persimmon and cultivated one. Rows of trees in the orchard. Branches of trees bearing fruits. A man pointing to a girdled or a ring-barked tree which induces fruitfulness.
Persimmon harvest in Chihli province, China. Rows of trees in a persimmon orchard producing commercial variety of persimmon fruits. The lantern persimmon tree which is not as productive as the others. A man beside a branch of a tree bearing a large number of persimmon fruits.
Persimmon harvest in Chihli province, China. A persimmon tree on an orchard with its branches bearing a number of fruits. Men perched on the tree and picking fruits with split bamboo poles. A man getting down from the persimmon tree. Two men beside a persimmon tree. One of them using a bamboo pole, to pick persimmon, which has a slot at its end that is wrapped at its base to prevent splitting when harvesting the fruit. The other man standing beside him with a basket. A man holding a net standing below a persimmon tree. Two men in the orchard with tools used for harvesting persimmons. One of them holding a pole with a hook and the other with a catching net. A man holding a twig broken with a fruit which results in a reduction in the crop. A few men standing in the orchard. One of them removing a fruit along with a twig from the split end of a bamboo pole. Another man holding the catching net watches him. The man holding and looking at the fruits in the net. The men inspecting the fruits on a tree. Piles of persimmons in the orchard after the harvest. A few men and children beside the fruit piles.