Ruins in Hiroshima, Japan after World War II. In the rubble a Japanese family searches for roof tiles to be used in their new home. A Japanese man searches through ruins of his former home for salvageable items. Ruins of a catholic church in the background. A Japanese boy searches through the rubble for salvage. A Japanese woman carrying a bouquet passes through lines of headstones in a cemetery. She reaches the gravestone of her son and places the flowers in two stone flower vases on each side. She clasps her hand and meditates. A Japanese woman walks along a road through rubble in front of a building.
Activities at a Japanese newspaper office in Hiroshima, Japan after World War II . Interior of the newspaper office shows several Japanese reporters at work. A reporter writes a script. The script and pictures are given to an editor seated at his table. The editor scans the pictures and the script and calls a copy girl. She picks up the material and takes it to a makeup desk. Typesetters at work at the makeup desk.
Activities at a Japanese newspaper office in Hiroshima, Japan after World War II. A typesetters' rack shows several typesetters at work pick out the Japanese characters by hand. An entire page is typeset and is ready for press. A translation editor's desk where several American magazines lay on the desk. A giant press starts rolling and printing the newspaper. The finished paper comes out of the press. Two Japanese men engaged in sorting the completed newspaper. A pressman looks on.
Ruins in Hiroshima, Japan after World War II. Japanese pedestrians, traffic and trolley cars move past the destroyed Agricultural Society Building in the background. Several Japanese women dry green seaweed on a line. A group of Japanese children salvages small pieces of tiles. They use a rail spike to pry the tiles loose. A group of Japanese laborers loads corrugated sheet metal scrap on a truck, preparatory to salvage.
Iron and Steel Works at Yawata in Japan (Yawata Steel Works). A view at the end of the Japan Iron and Steel Works. Open hearth, rolling mills and coke ovens. Southern sections of the plant as seen from the roof of the Muwata Grade School. Burned out sections of Yawata as seen from the roof of the school. This area lies between a post office and the south end of the plant. It includes the areas Higaichi, Machi, Okadamachi and Hishimachi. This view shows the results of incendiary attack of August 8, 1945. The coke plant and by-products installations of Japan Iron and Steel Works. The southwest corner of the plant. Views of Tobata Power Plant. Aircraft revetments around the Japanese Naval Air Base in Omura. (World War II period).
A Japanese doctor with a Japanese patient in a hospital in Nagasaki, Japan after World War II. The doctor removes bandages from the hands of the patient. The hands of the patient show atomic radiation effects.
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