Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) troops street fighting during Battle of Hong Kong in World War II. Burning oil storage tanks. Smoke rises from an oil dump in Hong Kong. Destroyed British bunkers and defenses, oil plants and wreckage. Japanese senior officers including Takashi Sakai pose inspecting the captured city. Japanese ships at sea. British prisoners in a courtyard in downtown Hong Kong. A British prisoner of war drinks from a can.
The Japanese military in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. Sea and buildings in the background. Ships at sea. Meeting of Japanese military officers including Imperial Japanese Navy officers and an aircraft pilot in flight gear. An animated map of Japanese positions and movements. Elevated sweeping views of a part of Canton, China. Fire burning in buildings of the Chinese city, as seen from ground level view. Smoke rises from building. Japanese troops walk on a street of city and interrogate a captured Chinese soldier. Japanese Prince Yasuhito tours the Canton combat zone. Signs of Japanese flag on a map. Japanese troops fire artillery. A collapsed Chinese building. Japanese artillery and tanks fire into the center of a Chinese town at close range. Japanese forces with machine guns and rifles fire at Chinese forces from behind a walled area. A Japanese soldier carries an injured comrade back to the Japanese covered position.
Industrial expansion of Japan with the help of America, after the end of World War 2. Food supply through sea in Japan. Oarsmen row wooden fishing boats. Mountains in the background. Japanese fishermen cast their nets. America helps Japan in industrial expansion. Japanese silk mill and textile industry. Japanese shipyard and ship building activity. Japanese production of automobiles and railroad train cars. Exterior view of Dai-Ichi Seimei Building (1 Chome-13-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-0006, Japan) which served as Supreme Commander Allied Powers (SCAP) headquarters (also called GHQ Building) in Tokyo Japan. American flags and United Nations flags seen flying at the building. Ships of U.S. Army preparing to transport U.S. troops from Japan for combat in Korea as Korean War starts. U.S. Army troops marshaled at Army Port of Sasebo, Japan, with their belongings.
Industrial development in Japan with the help of United States Army: Workers in automobile plant. Skilled Japanese workers repair damaged equipment for Allies, during Korean war. Ship under construction in Japanese shipyard. Japanese children run behind jeeps of American soldiers. Japanese children pose for camera. American soldier gives candy to Japanese children who swarm over him. American soldier gives doll to little Japanese girl. Americans and Japanese participate in swimming meet. Americans and Japanese together participate in activities after World War II.
Germany and Japan defeated in World War II. The defeat of Germany is celebrated in United States. Scenes represent the life of a typical Japanese soldier: a flag is raised to celebrate his birth; boys in uniform play war; troops sack Nanking; and in1944 he is killed to attack over harbor in America. In a dramatization, a soldier with an American machine gun is killed. Dead Americans. American soldiers honor their dead comrades covered with United States flag.
Film opens showing narrator, Japanese General Baron Sadao Araki, speaking. He is silhouetted in front of the red ball on a huge Japanese flag. Next, are scenes from Japanese mobilization and invasion of Manchuria. several Japanese troops are seen firing a 37mm gun, from a shallow trench, as a gun crew member spots from behind them using a pair of binoculars. A group of Japanese soldiers observing from a hill. Japanese troops advancing across barren terrain. Closeup of some descending a hill. A military steam locomotive displaying the Japanese flag, on a railroad track in the snow. Glimpse of soldiers atop the train. Japanese troops crossing a rice paddy on trail of brush and grass and slogging down a hill of mud. Troops moving in motor convoys of trucks. A Type 92 Osaka Armored Car driving fast past the camera. A troop train moving slowly out of a station, as crowds waving Japanese flags see the soldiers off. Army nurses in uniform with red cross armbands, march out the gate of a large building. Teachers and students pray for their troops, at a Shinto shrine. A woman using a megaphone rallies support for the war effort. Civilians supporting war effort line up to deliver packages for delivery to the troops. School children in a classroom write letters to the troops. A supply center where all kinds of useful items are being packaged in "comfort bags" for delivery to the troops. A large pile of comfort bags.
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