Documentary on the status of women in Japan. It begins with a group of "progressive" women working to improve women's lot. Images of Meiji statesmen Fukuzawa Yukichi and Mori Arinori are shown with comment that they recognized the importance of women and worked towards their equality. The narrator states that in spite of their efforts, attitudes towards women were slow to change. The narrator cites centuries of repression of women as a reason for this. (In the Nara period, however, songs from the anthology called the Manyoshu, indicate men and women had a more equal relationship, which is illustrated by a couple relaxing in a park, while girls dance in the background.) With that exception, women are shown to have had generally difficult lives in the past. scenes of women being supressed are reenacted, such as one where a man eats dinner while his wife sits quietly behind him. Another shows a woman being scolded by her husband. A woman pulling a heavily laden cart up a hill. Women bowing low while a Samurai passes them.
United States 1st Provisional Marine Brigade boards a ship at Japan. Several Marines wait for their turn to board a ship on the dock. Marines go up a ladder in the background. Marines on the wooden dock. Buildings in the background.
United States 1st Provisional Marine Brigade boards a ship at Japan. Marines on a truck pass by. Marines get off the trucks on the dock. A large transport in the background. Several Marines wait for their turn to board large transport. Men on the large transport look over railing of a ship. Men lay down their gear on the ground.
United States 1st Provisional Marine Brigade sits on a dock in Japan. Marine sits on the ground and cleans parts of disassembled 30 Caliber air cooled machine gun. Another man comes and assembles the gun. Both Marines wear dungarees without jacket. Trucks loaded with Marine troops moves along the dock area. Marines sit on the ground. A Marine cleans M-1 rifle. Marine looks over the gear on side.
Tropical typhoon hits United States Sakai Army Base in Japan. Rain and wind rising up to 110 miles per hour. Man stands at door of building. Metal roof disrupted with force of wind. Damaged rooftops of other buildings. Uprooted trees and power poles on street. Buildings collapse.
Film 'For a Bright Home Life' on improving the living standards and facilities in houses in Japan. women sit in garden and talk. People enter a building. A woman traffic police at work. A women addresses people. A woman cleans her house. A woman washes clothes outside her house. A woman stitches. A woman lays table. Woman dashes with another woman and the bowls fall on the kitchen floor. A woman pours water into a bucket from a container. She pours water into another bowl in her house. She picks up wood logs. Woman places logs into a wood stove. A girl rides a bicycle. She talks to her mother. Girls go to school. Girls attend domestic science classes. Girls make projects in the class.
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