A survey of the damage inflicted upon Kobe, Japan during World War II. Small machines in the rubble. South of streetcar tracks in third square west of Hong Kong Shanghai Bank is a stone grotto in the rubble and destroyed brick buildings. The east face of a three-story concrete school in Eizawocho. The building shows the effects of fire on the concrete wall. The south face of a two-story building gutted by the fire. Front columns of a building heavily chipped by the fire. A two story building gutted by fire which affected a closed metal shutter.
A survey of incendiary bomb damages inflicted upon Kobe, Japan during World War II. A Japanese man pulls a cart along Minato Cho Street. Slight effect of bombing on the buildings alongside the street. The south west face of a concrete theater whose roof has collapsed and a seven-story concrete building adjacent to it which shows very little surface damage. All these buildings are located west of Konunato Dorii. The south east face of a six-story concrete building gutted by fire and whose interior surface has been badly chipped. A five story modern concrete structure not visibly affected by fire. A two-story building that has been gutted by fire and whose walls have collapsed. A six-story concrete tile-faced building affected by fire.
A survey of incendiary bomb damages inflicted upon Kobe, Japan during World War II. Rubble and remains of one and two-story brick buildings. The west face of Shurakukan Theater. Debris in the foreground. The west face of four-story concrete Shochiku Theater gutted by fire. The entire roof collapsed. Interior of the burnt out theater shows the collapsed roof. A former government building. Area lying between the Meteorological Observatory and east west of street car tracks. Debris and rubble in the area. A crowd of Japanese people along a street.
Typhoon Billie in Kobe, Japan. Water flows through houses. Destroyed houses due to flood. Evacuees transported to emergency quarters. People sleep in the emergency quarters. Traffic strangled on flooded roads. Submerged and damaged houses.
Aftermath of attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. An animated map shows Japan in the Pacific Ocean. Nagasaki, Kobe and Otaru in Japan. Radio announcements of attack on Pearl Harbor made in Japan. Capsized and damaged ships. United States naval officers and staff work on salvage repair. Engineers and personnel recruited. Divers get into scuba diving suits and go under water to collect salvage. Destroyed USS Nevada, USS West Virginia, USS California. Salvage crew work aboard these ships. The Alho Clock Tower. Sailors stand with Lurline ship in background. People on a beach. Empty streets. (World War II period).
Opening scene shows cadets at the Imperial Japanese Military Academy in Tokyo, practicing Kendo martial art using bamboo swords (shinai) and wearing protective armor (bōgu). Next the cadets run an obstacle course. We see them leaping over a wall and then running over wooden poles across a deep open pit. They then leap another wall and climb out of a deep ditch and over a stone wall to the top. Next, students are seen demonstrating kendo in a courtyard at the a Military School in Kobe, Japan. Many spectators watch the demonstration.
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