Sign reads 'Bid Room, P & C Div' and 'P R Pagliocca'. Japanese industrialist business men in suits seen receiving information about United Nations military needs so they can bid for contracts to supply them. View of Japanese industrial factories at work during rebulding of Japan a few years after the end of World War 2. Steel mill with Bessemer converter furnace tilting and firing, ingots ready for forging, hot steel ribbons being placed in wire mills. United Nations Military equipment being repaired in Japan during the Korean war.
General Douglas MacArthur exits a building in occupied Japan. General Matthew Ridgway greets officers and officials in Japan. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles waves farewell and boards an airplane in Japan. Roman Catholic Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York greets American soldiers and Japanese people. Vice President and Mrs. Richard Nixon are greeted upon arrival in Japan. Ordinary American soldiers meet ordinary Japanese people.
American soldiers campaign for making friends in Japan after military occupation of Japan. Jeeps of American soldiers pass on street. Japanese children show great response to American soldiers. They run behind the jeeps of American soldiers. American soldier seated on jeep and children near around the soldier. He gives toys to children.
United States soldiers visit a Shinto Shrine during military occupation of Japan after WW2. A smiling Japanese woman. Two Americans enter a Japanese establishment where they attempt to follow Japanese customs, seated on the floor, sipping tea, and eating seafood with chopsticks. Japanese women look at sign advertising the movie, "Mother wore Tights" starring Betty Grable. The two Japanese women smile while viewing the sign. Scenes at U.S. Military sponsored Fair, called "Panoramic View of USA." where Japanese visitors tour smaller scale models and facsimiles of major American sites and landmarks, such as the White House, Pittsburgh "City of Steel", and famous American skyscrapers. Japanese parents and children are seen looking at Christmas displays in a local store, that includes a Santa Claus. Under the American occupation, Boy Scouts were revived in Japan. At an International Jamboree, scouts hold out a flag reading: " International Boy Scouts Troop 3, Yokohama, Japan." Japanese Boy Scouts pitch their tents and cook over campfires. American and Japanese Scoutmasters converse.
Japanese brides married to American soldiers attend school to learn about American homemaking and baby care. American women teach Japanese brides about baby care. An American housewife teacher demonstrates on a baby doll. She wipes the face of the baby doll. A Japanese bride stands up to demonstrate lesson. Japanese brides attend a baking class with an American teacher. Japanese students pour tea from Western porcelain tea set. A Japanese woman receives a cup of tea.
Japanese and Americans participate together in many activities of sports for international friendship after military occupation of Japan. Boys play football. Spectators pack a stadium to watch swimming competition and water polo match. Flags of USA and Japan. Swimmers compete in race using butterfly stroke.
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