Signboard at the entrance of an office 'Consulate General of Japan, Honolulu' in Honolulu, Hawaii. Trunk and branches of a palm tree. Workers and merchants at a sidewalk restaurant. Tall grass waves in breeze at a field and white clouds in the sky over the field. A sign board 'Z Uruu' with Japanese font written under it. The Diamond Head at the Oahu Beach. A house with a large yard surrounded by trees. A hotel written with Japanese words and cars parked outside. Japanese people pass by the hotel. Signboard 'Morita Shoten' and Japanese font written below it hangs on a shop. Views of the Mokuaekaua Church, in Kailua-Kona, the oldest Christian church in the Hawaiian Islands.
Five Japanese girls, on their way to school, stop to bow at a shrine, Next three Japanese school boys also pause respectfully at the shrine. The next scene shows many children on the roof and in the large courtyard of a school building in the heart of a large Japanese city. An electrified railroad train runs nearby behind the school building. A very large group of children is seen in the school courtyard (or playground). The gradually assemble themselves into an ordered formation, while teachers stand at the periphery. The students all bow toward their teachers, in unison. The children break from their formation and begin to enter the school..View from above of girls entering the building. View of girls working at sewing machines inside a classroom. Girls seated around an instructor teaching them how to perform a traditional Japanese tea ceremony (temae). Students in a classroom learning arithmetic with the use of an abacus. Closeup of a boy moving counters on an abacus. The teacher ask a question and most students raise their hands to volunteer the answer. The teacher chooses a student from the girl's side of the classroom and writes the sum of a large column of numbers as the girl reads her result.
In opening scene prior to World War 2, camera pans across a building complex that might be a resort hotel. Scene shifts to hundreds of bathers on shallow water at a beach. Life guards occupy a structure in the shallows. Families with small children fill the shoreline and shallow water. some of the small children use flotation devices. Actual swimmers are seen farther out in deeper water. Closeup of three small children playing with a pot as they sit in a protected area that seems to be surrounded by seaweed or other vegetation. A boy behind them works to build the surrounding wall. Change of scene shows another area of beach with a long pier extending out into the water. The shore is completely hidden by families seated on the beach under huge umbrellas and tents. The next scene is of a downtown commercial district festooned with numerous banners overlooking the street. There are no vehicles evident. The entire area is filled with pedestrians. At another section of the town, the street is more densly crowded with pedestrians.
Japanese women wear Western fashion in a park. Two Japanese women wearing Western-style dresses walk toward the steps and talk. A Japanese woman wears a geometric dress puts her handkerchief inside her purse. Two women walk past a fountain. One woman poses in the garden. Trees in the background. Two women wearing hats walk and talk together. Women in hat and with umbrella pose in the garden.
Two Japanese women in kimonos enter a building. Cars arriving outside a building. Two Japanese women in Western-style dresses at a park together. Japanese woman holding a beaded purse. A Japanese woman in a printed dress nods and laughs. A Japanese woman puts a napkin inside her handbag. Three Japanese women chatting together. A Japanese woman wearing a white fascinator. A woman smiles demurely while holding an umbrella.
A Japanese woman drinks tea during a tea ceremony. Another woman bows before sipping her tea. A Japanese woman opens her purse to do her make-up. Woman applies press powder with a puff before returning make-up back to her purse. Woman returns lipstick back to her purse. Two women get up from their cushions and walk away. A woman puts on her zori sandals.
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