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Japan in final mobilization on the home front during World War II
Street scene in Japan, as Allied Forces make progress toward Japan in World War 2. Cartoons posted to remind Japanese citizens to avoid talking about military matters. Government leader speaking to citizens about the "oratorical conquest of the foe." Camera pans across his outdoor audience. Next, tickets sold in a State Lottery to help pay for the war, are dumped into a tumbler, turned with hand cranks by two men. View of spectators waiting for the outcome as winning tickets are drawn. A man and a women saying farewell to their respective sailor sons, as they prepares to depart for duty. A troop train leaving a station as loved ones wave goodbye to departing servicemen. Next, large crowd of well-wishers wave from shore as the Japanese battleship Aki steams away. Closeup of crew members aboard the ship. Closeup of women pointing and waving from the shore. Views from a boat full of civilians, of the Aki making way in the harbor behind another three-funnel warship. Change of scene shows Emperor Hirohito with officers on horseback, reviewing and saluting Japanese army troops. Views of many Japanese soldiers marching in formations. Change of scene to U.S. Iowa class battleship viewed from overhead, and then to several U.S. battleships heading past the Golden Gate Bridge in California, on their way into the Pacific ocean. Aerial view of the battleships underway in single line formation. The U.S. Destroyer USS Porter (DD-356) passing several other U.S. warships. A Douglas Dauntless dive bombers brought up on the deck of a U.S. Yorktown class aircraft carrier. Navy armorers working on the deck of the carrier, moving bombs and machine gun ammunition. Tail view of the carrier from an aircraft taking off. Aerial view of a U.S. armada of warships and aircraft underway over the ocean. Aerial view of Mount Fuji in Japan.
Japanese landscapes, Hirohito's coronation as emperor and shrines in Japan.
General of the Imperial Japanese Army Baron Sadao Araki narrates the film. Japanese flag is seen behind Baron Sadao Araki. Aerial view of clouds. Smoke emanates from volcanoes in Japan. Ripples being made in a lake or pond. A map of Japan. View of a Japanese waterfall. Trees grow on rocky cliffs by a river. View of the summit of Takachiho in the Kirishima Mountains (霧島山, Kirishima-yama) in Kyushu, Japan. Rice grows in a rice field in Japan. A print of the enthronement of Emperor Jimmu, the first Emperor of Japan. View of the Entrance to the Ise Grand Shrine (伊勢神宮, Ise Jingū 1 Ujitachicho, Ise, Mie 516-0023, Japan). People crossing a traditional Japanese bridge. View of the two giant “married couple rocks” (Meoto Iwa 夫婦岩575 Futamichoe, Ise, Mie 519-0602, Japan) that are joined by a Shimenawa rice-straw rope in Futami, Mie, Japan. View of the Kashihara Jingu Shrine (橿原神宮934 Kumecho, Kashihara, Nara 634-8550, Japan) in Nara, Japan. View of the Torii gate at Atsuta Shrine (熱田神宮, Atsuta-jingū 1 Chome-1-1 Jingu, Atsuta Ward, Nagoya, Aichi 456-8585, Japan) in Nagoya, Japan. Torii gate of the Meiji Shrine (明治神宮, Meiji Jingū 1-1 Yoyogikamizonocho, Shibuya City, Tokyo 151-8557, Japan) in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. View of the Nijubashi Bridge inside the Tokyo Imperial Palace grounds (1-1 Chiyoda, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-8111, Japan). View of the Kyoto Imperial Palace (3 Kyotogyoen, Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto, 602-0881, Japan) in preparation for the coronation of Emperor Hirohito. Banzai banners decorate the imperial palace. Japanese archers in traditional garb, carrying their bows. Emperor Hirohito’s procession makes its way to his coronation in Kyoto. Two 18th Century coaches bearing the Imperial Seal of Japan, also known as the Chrysanthemum Flower Seal (菊紋, kikumon) head the procession, accompanied by a mounted honor guard. Also in the procession is the Kashikodokoro (enshrining the Imperial Regalia) being carried by young men from the village of Yase, near Kyoto.
Fighting in China as Japan tries to conquer China during World War II.
Japanese aggression in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. People in the streets of China. Animated pictures show one Chinese out of every 5 people in the world. A page showing Chinese writing. A mariners' compass. A Chinese man at an observatory. A porcelain cutlery set on a table. A Chinese man places porcelain into a furnace. A man puts gun powder in a bowl from a mortar. Explosion in the bowl. Firecrackers burst. Chinese people celebrating a festival. A book titled 'Analects of Confucius'. A saying of Confucius reads “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others”. Statues and pagodas in China. Scenes of fighting. Japanese artillery fires and cavalry advances. U.S. flag flutters beside the Chines flag. Chinese troops on horses. Animated map of China. A book titled 'The Tanaka Memorial Japan's dream of World Empire'. Japanese Foreign Minister Baron Nishi Tanaka. Excerpted line of the book. Japanese military officers. An animated map of Asia showing regions which Japan wanted to conquer. Animated map shows Germany and Russia. Animated map showing Japan and China contrasts Japanese unity with Chinese disunity. Animated map shows China breaking into pieces. A scene of the Japanese Army.
USAAF General Henry Arnold briefs a B-29 combat crew on Saipan, Mariana Islands before a mission to Tokyo, Japan.
A B-29 combat crew is briefed on Saipan island, Mariana Islands during World War 2. Several aircraft parked on an airfield. Few baggages in front of an aircraft. United States Army Air Force Generals Henry H Arnold and Lauris Norstad and another officers walking up to B-29 crew standing on the airfield. General Norstad introduces General Henry Arnold to the combat crew of B-29 Superfortress and the commandants who are on their way to Tokyo, Japan after joining the 21st Bomber Command. General Henry Arnold shakes hands with the commandants. The crew standing in a row beside a USAAF heavy bomber B-29 Super Fortress. General Arnold briefs the crew. The General says the 21st Bomber Command has been operating out of China and the crew has the best of the aircraft which could carry the heaviest of loads. The General tells the crew that the message which is to be conveyed to Japan, is to be written on bombs. A few members of the crew wheel a cart loaded with bombs beside the aircraft. One of the crew members writes a message on a bomb as the General dictates. The Generals, the commandants and the crew members beside the cart of the bombs. The General wishes the crew good luck and shakes hands with the commandants. The message on the bomb for the enemy reads 'To the Warlords of Japan, We have not forgotten - The B-29s will remind you again and again and again'.
American aircraft carrier burning from Japanese Kamikaze strike, during World War II
World War 2. Damage control party board an American U.S. Navy aircraft carrier off the Japanese coast, fights fire caused by a Kamikaze (suicide dive bomber). Kamikaze aircraft on October 30, 1944 dives toward USS Franklin (CV-13) passing just overhead and crashing into the ship with explosion and flames. Heavy fire and smoke on the deck. Wounded aided on the deck.
Emperor Hirohito reviews the graduate officers and present awards at the graduating ceremony in Japan (WW2)
A film of the Army-Navy Screen Magazine about the military cadets trained at the Imperial Japanese Army Academy or Rikugun Shikan Gakkō in Ichigaya, Tokyo, Japan. The Emperor of Japan Hirohito reviews the graduate officers. The cadets parade. Women from a school for army brides bow to graduates. The honored student is being presented a special scroll. The Commanding Officer receives a gift from Emperor Hirohito for training the cadets. The cadets in a parade on horses lead by Emperor Hirohito. The cadets raise their cups of Sake (Japanese rice wine) during the graduating ceremony. Soldiers walk past a wooden gang plank as they return to Tokyo. View of dead Japanese soldiers lying on a beach following a battle with American forces in World War II.
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