War criminals face trial at Ichigaya Court in Ichigaya, Tokyo during Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal following World War 2. Chief prosecutor, Joseph B. Keenan and other prosecutors in the courtroom. They sit down. Shows a judge reading a document. Views of defendant General Hideki Tojo in the dock.
Convicted class A Japanese war criminals at Ichigaya Court in Ichigaya, Tokyo during Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal following World War 2. Views of defendants in the dock include Admiral Takasumi Oka, General Akira Muto, Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, General Hideki Togo, General Kenryo Sato, General Sadao Araki, Mamoru Shigemitsu, General Akira Muto, Admiral Shigetaro Shimada, Marquis Koichi Kido, Okinori Kaya, and Naoki Hoshino.
Shows Korean girls arriving at the base of the Russian Tower of Liberation in Pyongyang with flowers and garlands in their hands. Korean bands play and Korean National flag flutters on the tower .Girls put the flowers and garlands at the base of the tower. Russian guards raise their rifles high and fire in air to commemorate the martyred. Koreans gather in numbers with flags and banners. Pictures of Stalin and Kim II Sung can be seen. Thousands of boys and girls march in columns with Korean flags and banners in their hands, celebrating the anniversary of Korea's liberation from the Japanese.
Japanese farmers till land, sow rice seedlings, harvest and thrash the grain in Japan. Workers at an oil refinery, lumbering being carried out in forests. Female workers extract pearls from oysters. Mulberry fields, breeding silkworm and production of silk thread are seen. At a textile exhibit goods like camera, cycles, hats being displayed.
War Crimes Trials in Tokyo, Japan, for Japanese defendants after World War 2. Other officials and judges in the courtroom. Mrs. Yasuko Konoye, a new witness is sworn in. British prosecutor Comyns Carr asks Mrs. Konoye to identify herself and reads her statement. As Mr. Carr stops reading his statement, Mr. Brooks and Mr. Logan make objections to the document being presented. General Telford Taylor reads his summation.
The eve of South Korean's Independence Day (Liberation Day celebrating liberation from Japan) in Pyongyang North Korea. People demonstrate in number with Korean National flags,Soviet flags and several banners in hands.Pictures of Prime Minister Kim II Sung and Joesph Stalin in the rally can be seen.The demonstration passes under a bridge. Korean children carrying flags and banners parade on the streets. Thousands of people with floats ,flags ,banners and pictures gather to celebrate. Shows PM Kim II sung along with Russian officials spectating the celebrations from a balcony.