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Emperor Hirohito with businessmen, Japanese businessmen meet with American civilians in New York City

Emperor Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa) and Japanese and Western businessmen wearing straw boat hats pose together with military officers. View of Low Memorial Library at Columbia University in New York City. Japanese men meet an American couple inside the campus of Columbia University. Door reads “Japanese Government Railways Japan Tourist Bureau”. A man opens the door. Another man greets him. A Japanese businessman smokes a pipe and reads a Literary Digest magazine. An American couple meets the Japanese businessman. The businessman shows American man a document during their meeting. Map of Honshu, the central island of Japan, identifying the main produce and industries on the island. Smokestacks of a factory in Japan and view of homes and buildings in a city or town of Japan. Map of Central Japan showing its population below.

Date: 1935
Duration: 3 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025121
Surrender of Japan after atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

Surrender of Japanese Imperial forces leads to end of World War II. V-J Day (Victory over Japan) celebrations in August 1945. Americans celebrate as newspaper headlines announce V-J Day. Close up view of man holding Boston Post with headline "War Is Over." Teeming crowds in New York City's Times Square celebrating the news. Crowd of citizens, soldiers, and sailors in uniform surrounds a newspaper with headline "U.S. Announces Jap Surrender." Happy crowds of people waving, jumping, and smiling in jubilation. People show V signs. U.S. warships underway at sea. U.S. soldiers aboard ship. Japanese troops parading in Japan. Japanese aircraft lined up in flight line ready for take off to defend the Japanese mainland. Japanese amphibian tanks lined up ready for use against a possible allied invasion. Aerial view of actual atomic bomb explosion over Hiroshima as seen from second B-29 aircraft accompanying the Enola Gay on the bombing run on August 6, 1945. Ruins of twisted metal and debris in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and civilians walking among the devastation. Japanese civilians along road. Japanese Generals deplaning and meeting U.S. General MacArthur on an airfield. Troops of 11th Airborne Division land in Japan. Marines reach Japanese shores at Yokosuka Naval Base in Landing crafts. American soldier raises American flag in Japan. American troops aboard Japanese battleship Nagato after Japanese surrender. View of the Nagato (later used as a target ship during Operation Crossroads).

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052559
US baseball players visit Japan in 1931; also anti-Japanese propaganda circa 1941-1942 during World War 2.

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.

Date: 1942
Duration: 5 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040808
American leaders visit Japan. American soldiers and Japanese citizens get to know one another

General Douglas MacArthur exits a building in occupied Japan. General Matthew Ridgway greets officers and officials in Japan. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles waves farewell and boards an airplane in Japan. Roman Catholic Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York greets American soldiers and Japanese people. Vice President and Mrs. Richard Nixon are greeted upon arrival in Japan. Ordinary American soldiers meet ordinary Japanese people.

Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024877
Animated map explains islands and mountainous range in Japan.

Animated map of Japan explains the geologic formation and the geographic placing of the Japanese islands. Japan is the land of rising sun. Animated map explains many islands in Japan. Tokyo and the Pacific Ocean drawn on the globe. Animated map shows the four main islands (from north to south) Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu in Japan. Mountain range is explained on animated map. View of forest and mountains.

Date: 1936
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024895
Japanese civilians visit Shinto shrine and perform rituals in Japan.

Shintoism as a religion practiced in Japan. A Shinto priest reads from a paper. A torii found in a Shinto shrine garden. View of the “floating” torii gate of the Itsukushima Shrine (1-1 Miyajimacho, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima 739-0588, Japan) in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. A Japanese man stands under the “floating” torii gate. Two Shinto priests walking. Stone stairs leading to a Shinto shrine. A man bows at a small shrine. Façade of a Shinto shrine (likely the Kitano Tenmangū Shrine in Kyoto, Japan). Crowds of worshippers visit a Shinto shrine. The Imperial Chrysanthemum Seal (kikumon) is displayed on the side of a Shinto gate. Priests perform purification rituals. Japanese woman performs rituals. Priest gives blessing to people.

Date: 1936
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024914