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Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) troops attack Canton (Guangzhou), China during the Second Sino-Japanese War
Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) soldiers cross the Pearl River and attack Chinese positions near Canton (Guangzhou), China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Japanese soldiers attack with machine guns, rifles, artillery. A Chinese building with white flag. Destroyed houses in village following Japanese bombardment. IJA soldiers on horseback and infantry on foot enter a town. Japanese soldiers advance through battlefield. They also use tank and fighter airplanes for attack. Medics carry casualties on stretchers. Japanese troops stand near armored cars, tankettes and tanks. A Japanese officer on horseback. Imperial Japanese Army soldiers marching away. 1938.
Attack on Chinese positions by Japanese forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War
The invasion of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. A map showing Chinese cities. Imperial Japanese Army soldiers stand at attention. Japanese soldiers moving equipment and supplies across China. Japanese soldiers running and pulling rickshaws. They push a cart full of sacks. IJA cavalries move on horseback. Aerial view of Japanese fighters. Troops digging trenches. A Japanese light tank. Tankette covered in camouflage moving. A Japanese officer leads troops to advance in forest. A medic treats a wounded soldier. Japanese artillery attack Chinese positions as they march toward Canton, China (Guangzhou, China). Japanese soldiers cross a river. Officers cross the river on horseback. Infantry soldiers and horses wading the water. Japanese troops approach Canton. An abandoned car near Canton. Japanese soldiers shooting in prone position with rifles and machine guns.
Views of Zōjōji temple in Tokyo damaged during World War II
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.
Demolished Warehouse in Shiba District of Tokyo Japan, soon after end of World War 2
Demolished warehouse in Shiba district, Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan. B-29 in flight to the ruins of Shiba district. Bomb damage and devastation from aerial bombardment in World War II. Damaged Buddhist club. Demolished residential district.13 September 1945.
Contrast between Chinese and Japanese national aspirations before Second Sino-Japanese War and WW2
Film reviews China's four thousand years of history. Scenes showing mountains, woods, and a farmer plowing with oxen in rural China. A mass of Chinese people tightly packed together as they walk along a narrow alleyway in a town. Fleeting glimpses of two Chinese soldiers; a child; a woman; a woman and child; and numerous other Chinese people in a montage splayed across a background of moving crowds. An open book of Chinese characters. Mariners compass superimposed on an moving image of an ocean liner. Views of several large-scale astrolabes and world globes. A Chinese worker placing porcelainware in an oven for glazing. A man spooning gunpowder into a dish, followed by glimpse of a Chinese firework igniting. Chinese paper Dragon and street celebrations. A book entitled: "Analects of Confucius," in which, on page 105, is found the admonition: "What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." Ancient statues of two men and of two riderless horses behind them. Tall Chinese pagodas. Chinese artillery field pieces firing. Chinese troops advancing in several situations during conflict with Japan. Map of China and illustration of Japanese samurai warrior emblazoned across it. A book entitled: "The Tanaka Memorial, (Japan's Dream of World Empire)." A still photograph of Japanese Foreign Minister Baron Tanaka Giichi in military uniform, with other Japanese officers. Excerpts shown, ostensibly from this book. Emperor Hirohito is seen with Baron Tanaka, and other officers, all in military uniforms, in front of a tent, circa 1928. Automated map ostensibly illustrates the elements of a Japanese plan of conquest, starting with Manchuria for raw materials; the absorption of China for manpower; followed by a sweep South for riches of the Indies and Australia; and lastly a sweep eastward to crush the United States. More views of crowds of Chinese people are followed by an. animated map illustrating early World War II events, including Nazi Operation Barbarossa against Russia, approved by German leader Adolf Hitler in 1940, and the Nazi German occupation of Denmark, Norway, and other European countries. (Note: Actual existence of the so-called "Tanaka Memorial Imperialist Conquest Plan" is a subject of debate among historians.)
Beginnings of the Second Sino-Japanese war
Sign over American Embassy in China. Colonel William Mayer, former military attache in that embassy relates events precipitating Second Sino-Japanese war. Scenes of the Marco Polo bridge near Peking, on night of July 7, 1937, as Japanese artillery bombards the area. Animated map shows movement of Japanese forces out of Manchuria to occupy Peiping and Tientsin. Victorious Japanese troops stand atop a building, raising their flags and shouting cries of victory. Japanese army officers sit around a table smiling and contended and others walk in a group. Chinese artillery crews are seen retaliating as they fire field pieces at Japanese positions in Shanghai. Shells explode in background, and Chinese infantry advance through damaged buildings and rubble. Animated map shows Shanghai and other cities, and film transitions to view of the bustling city of Shanghai on the Yangtze River. In the seaport, large ocean liners and freighters, as well as tug boats and Junks, are seen. What looks like a Japanese Tachikawa Ki.54 Type 1 transport plane takes off over a Chinese pagoda. Double-decker buses travel through the streets. Rickshaws are also seen. Map outlines the foreign residential areas of the French Concession and the International Settlement. American, British and Japanese flags are shown in the International Settlement. Detachments of troops from Japan, Britain, France, and United States Marines are seen. A U.S. Marine is posted as a sentry at the Shanghai Power Company. Coolies carry heavy bucket on a long pole. British, French and Japanese troops also performed sentry duties. Japanese troops and armored cars are seen. A scuffle breaks out in August, 1937, and Japanese soldiers start moving in trucks, take up firing positions, and begin firing guns from their armored cars. Map shows Chinese counterattack pushing the Japanese contingent toward the Khangpoo River. Next it shows Japanese warships and reinforcements in the Yangtze River and their advance toward Woosung and Shanghai. Views of Japanese warships bombarding the shore and large explosions from their striking shells. Beachhead is shown South of Shanghai, where two divisions of Japanese infantry are seen arriving in landing craft. They advance across the fields toward Shanghai. Map shows Chinese withdrawals to West and South, toward Nanking and Hangchow. Chinese medics along with infantry march in retreat. Japanese pilots are seen being briefed. Next, Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are seen in flight, and bombardiers and other crew in them. Bombs falling on the city. Civilians running for cover as bombs explode. Aichi D3A1 aircraft dropping bombs. The Shanghai waterfront being bombed and civilians running.
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