Huge crowd attends baseball game between visiting American players and Japanese team in Tokyo, 1931. Lou Gehrig, Al Simmons and Lefty Grove mentioned by announcer but not seen. American representatives walk out to pitcher's mound to greet pitcher. Shots of Babe Ruth hitting. Shots of Japanese player rounding third, sliding safely into home. Film suddenly morphs into anti-Japanese propaganda circa 1941-1942; shows Japanese newspaper publisher who was murdered. Scenes of sumo wresting and judo seen and compared to alleged acts of Japanese diplomatic and military treachery and spying. Shots of fishermen, tourists, barbers and others said to be spies and soldiers for Tokyo. Closeup of a Japanese man gardening. Japanese men on small fishing boats, raising boat sails, and pulling in heavy loads of tuna fish in nets. Japanese tourists supposedly taking photographs of American ships in Hawaii. Female Japanese barbers giving haircuts. Japanese military officials in Japan organizing papers, films, and incoming information. Japanese industrialist figure emerging from car. Scenes of Japanese industry supporting war preparations: Exterior views of Japanese factories in Osaka, textile mill operations in Tokyo, chemical plant operations in Nagoya, steel mills, and a large newly completed ship being launched in Nagasaki. Overhead view of steel mill operations. View of a slum town area in Japan and simple living arrangements of Japanese citizens. Japanese laborers at work in small home factories for textiles, pottery, and other goods, said to be in "semi-slavery." Workers include men, women, and child labor. Shows production of goods said to be produced in other countries that are pirated, mislabeled by Japan, and dumped abroad to undercut competitors. Products shown include factories and production lines for spark plugs, scotch whiskey, matches, silk, cotton, bottled beer, toothbrushes, hair brushes, hair combs, and American flags. Shipping dock areas in Japan showing large ships at docks, cranes in use, and importing of oil, rubber, scrap iron, tin for war materiel.
A captured Japanese light tank, 1941 Model at an allied encampment in India. Testing of operation of Japanese tank over the rough and level ground. The tank crosses ditches. Trees and fence in the background. Smoke trails the tank. (World War II period).
Allied testing of a captured Japanese light tank, 1941 Model, at a training camp in India. Views of Japanese tank as it is driven up a steep pile of dirt and fails to reach the top, spinning its treads midway up the rise. (World War II period).
A captured Japanese light tank, 1941 Model at testing grounds in India. Front and side view of tank as it approaches over bumpy, rutted ground. Gun turret of the tank. Smoke and dust trails the tank. (World War II period).
A 1941 model Japanese light tank is tested at a camp in India by the Allies. The tank is observed crossing down and over a deep ditch. Something bounces off the side of the tank at the bottom of the ditch. Additional views of the tank crossing ditches. View of the tank stuck in the valley of a tight ditch, and unable to scale the other side. (World War II period).
Testing operations of an Allied-captured Japanese light tank, 1941 Model, at an encampment in India. Several houses in the background. A 1940s automobile passes on a roadway beside the testing area where the Japanese tank climbs a steep embankment and then rolls down the other side and up out of a ditch. The operation is repeated from a different camera angle. (World War II period).