Discusses progress of women in Japanese society. View of Japanese parliament in session. Japanese woman works at home. Young women study in Japanese university. Women work in factories. Japanese woman raises an issue in a council meeting. Japanese women work in farms and company offices. A young Japanese couple.1950.
Japanese children attending school during World War 2. Japanese schoolchildren bow and greet their teachers “先生おはようございます。” (“Good morning teacher” in English). Japanese schoolchildren taking off their street shoes and changes into their uwabaki (上履き) indoor slippers in front of their assigned getabako (下駄箱) shoe cupboard. Children taking their seats inside their classroom. Outdoor shoes neatly arranged in wooden cupboard outside classroom. Japanese schoolchildren hold books during a reading lesson. A boy stands up to recite from his Japanese book. Schoolboy reads from a basic Japanese workbook. An illustration from the Japanese workbook depicting respect for the elderly inside a train. A girl stands up to recite from her book after being called. A bespectacled Japanese schoolteacher reads from book. Illustration from a Japanese book depicting people exercising together.
U.S. submarine on surface of a bay in Japanese waters, during World War 2. It fires at boats and installations in the head of the bay. View of gun crew on the submarine as they load and fire a deck gun. sunset view as the submarine cruises across the bay firing two 5 inch deck guns.Crew members throwing empty shell casings overboard. Officers on conning tower looking through binoculars. Crew continues to fire the guns rapidly, as sunlight fades. Some striking views of clouds at sunset.
Psychology and living habits of Japanese people. Precision and planning details in Japanese houses. A Japanese couple in their home. The man is dressed in western dress and his wife is dressed in traditional kimono. They sit on the mats to drink tea. The Japanese woman serves tea with precision. The tea ceremony is elaborate. The woman enters the room and slides the door.
Psychology and living habits of Japanese people. A Japanese Theater. Audience in the Japanese theater. A play being staged there. The actions in the play are executed in detail. A Japanese actor adjusts his kimono. Japanese actors wear masks or heavy make-up. A Japanese actor puts make-up in the dressing room. The actors change costumes on stage. Japanese version of Jacob's Ladder. The feet of the Japanese Emperor are on the top. Japanese people have their positions on the ladder according to the hierarchy of social strata.
A dramatization depicts Japanese psyche and living habits in World War II. A Japanese household. A Japanese woman pleads to her father to give her permission to go to war as she is a nurse. The father does not seem happy. The father looks at his daughter's photograph when he is alone and keeps money for her before she goes. The father gets startled at a Maneki Neko cat jack-in-a-box toy. A Japanese man returns to home after a long time. He kneels and bows to his mother. A Japanese boy in school uniform carries the ashes of his dead brother. The boy cries privately.