Soybean cultivation in Harbin, Manchuria, China. A farmer in a soybean field holding the figs of the plant with soybean pods. A field in the background. The farmer holding a small shovel-like tool with which soybean is harvested. The farmer sharpens the tool before harvesting. The farmer harvesting the crop with the tool. A few farmers in the field during the harvesting. An automatic self-rake reaper drawn by a horse in the field. A horse cart drawn on the field by a farmer. Harvested soybean collected by another farmer and put in the horse cart to be taken to threshing ground. The soybean field after harvest.
Film opens with closeup of Japanese general, Baron Sadao Araki, speaking. Behind him is a huge Japanese flag so that his head is silhouetted against its huge red ball. His image fades out and a map of Japan and Asia appears. Sadao Araki continues to narrate. The map shows animated arrows directed from Russia southward toward Japanese held Manchuria (Manchukuo) and from India northward. The arrows converge and are joined by arrows from the sea. All are directed against Japan. The message clearly speaks to need for Japan to be ready to protect against attacks by others. Back to closeup of Baron Sadao Araki speaking. Then flags of world nations are shown with Japan's rising taller and larger than all the rest. Next a map of Japan and its occupied territories in Manchukuo, and Korea, with arrows from foes threatening them. Japan seems to shudder on the animated map.
Japanese bombing aircraft bombs China. Smoke rises due to the bombing by the Japanese aircraft. Wounded natives. An injured boy. A woman puts bandage on the leg of the injured. A wounded man is carried on a stretcher.
Pre-mechanistic methods of agriculture in China. Women work in cotton farm. Farmer's family cut crop beans in farm. Poor Chinese woman picks up the spilled beans from the farm. Farmer carries bundle of crop on his back. A mule drawn thresher separates seeds from the crop laid on ground. Farmer operates the thresher manually.
Pre-mechanistic methods of agriculture in China. Operation of a village grindstone used to grind wheat, beans, millet and peanuts. A man and a mule turn the grindstone. Farmers winnowing to separate husk from grain. Farmer plows field using ox-driven plow. A poor woman gather farm residue for fuel. Woman and child wash clothes at a water logged area.
Cotton-making in rural China. Chinese men prepare warp for weaving cotton cloth. Family eats food. Old man smokes pipe. The man smiles for the camera.
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