Arrival of U.S. High Commissioner of the Philippines, Francis Sayre in Manila, Philippines during World War II. Crowd waiting for the arrival of Sayre. Welcome signs and banners held by people. Sayre and committee review troops. Troops in formation. Philippine President Manuel Quezon addresses the crowd. Sayre addresses a crowd. Troops, trucks and gun crews pass in front of the stand. Troops pass under a decorated gate.
Film begins showing a map off Japan highlighting notable places including Mount Fuji, Tokyo Bay, cities of Tokyo, Yokohama, Shimoda, and Oshima. View from a ship in Tokyo Bay, heading toward tall island in the distance. Scene shifts to a dozen women in traditional kimona dress singing and dancing on a bluff overlooking the water. A colorful horse circles about in the background as the women dance. Next, two women dressed in traditional kimona, carry large trays on their heads. Glimpse of three farmers with a horse. Views of heavy waves and clouds at waterfront. Strong wind blowing snow off a mountain peak. A speeding steam locomotive pulling a train along the shore of Tokyo Bay. Mount Fuji in the near background.
Emperor Hirohito is escorted by mounted Japanese Imperial Guards to the Imperial Diet building (presently known as the National Diet building) in Tokyo, Japan. View of the Imperial Diet building (1 Chome-7-1 NagatachÅ, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-0014, Japan). The carriage carrying Emperor Hirohito arrives in the Imperial Diet. View of the Central Hall of the House of Councilors. View of the public gallery above the back end of the House of Councilors. Camera pans to the seats at the House of the Councilors. View of the golden throne for the Emperor of Japan at the public gallery. A Japanese official speaks at the ceremony. Japanese journalists working on their desks. Workers working in printing press. Newspapers being printed on a press. Various Japanese newspapers and magazines on display.
"Kabuki-Za" Theater (specialized in Japanese traditional kabukis) in Ginza Higashi, Kyobashi-Ward (current Chuo-Ward, Tokyo, Japan. Japanese crowd arrive at "Kabuki-Za" Theater. Japanese women wearing kimono look at wall paintings (kabuki posters). In the backstage, Ichikawa Danjyuro XI (famous kabuki performer,1909-1965) is reading play scripts of today's musical program called "Kagami-zishi" and a female impersonator (Danjyuro XI) is getting ready in front of the mirror. The stage curtain rises. The audience seated. Singers with traditional kabuki band starts playing and singing kabuki music on the stage. Danjyuro XI performs a kabuki dance as a female impersonator . Kabuki perfomers (consist of only males) dressed in costumes perform dance.
A sumo wrestling match in Japan. The sumo wrestlers and a referee in ring. Spectators watching the match. The crowd applauds.
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.
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