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Higashi Hongan-ji Buddhist Temple and related areas in Kyoto, Japan.
Tourism in Kyoto, Japan. View of the Higashi Hongan-ji Buddhist Temple, which towers far above the tightly packed Japanese homes (Japan, 600-8505 Kyoto, Shimogyo Ward). View of the wooden Torii gate inside a Shinto shrine near the Higashi Hongan-ji. A fire breaks opposite eight-story Marubutsu Department Store (presently known as Kintetsu Department Store). Mountains in distance. Another view of Higashi Hongan-ji Buddhist Temple and related areas. A view around Kyoto Railroad Station (Higashishiokoji Kamadonocho, Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto, Japan). Rooftops of closely packed wooden houses and other buildings.
Japanese people bow in front of the gates of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan.
Japanese people in front of the gates of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan to bid the Shōwa Emperor a Happy New Year. The front of the Palace Gate shows Japanese people bowing. Dai-Ichi Building (Dn Tower 21, 1 Chome-13-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-0006, Japan) in the background. A Japanese family bows in union. Before they bow, coats and hats are removed and laid under the arm. A family of two children and their parents line up and bow. The children are dressed in kimonos. Several girls line up and bow. Three girls walk along a road. A family comprising of a mother, two small children and a boy in a student's clothes take off their coats and bow together. Two women pray and bow. Grounds of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan.
Devastation from atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima Japan in World War II
U.S. War Department film showing devastation from atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War 2. Opening scene is darkness of predawn in Alamogordo, New Mexico, on 16, July, 1945, at 5:29:45 AM. Suddenly, a huge explosion lights up the sky. A fireball and mushroom shaped cloud form. Closer view of the explosion from another camera. Following the initial explosion, the ensuing sound is a continuous roar. Another view is shown, from a third camera location. It highlights the boiling fire and smoke of the explosion. These scenes document the first successful test of a nuclear weapon, code named "Trinity". Change of scene shows glimpse of the Manhattan Project B Reactor site at Hanford, Washington, as viewed from a car driving past. Closeup of the facility, from right up against a boundary fence. Glimpses of other Manhattan Project facilities in New Mexico, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and another view of the Hanford, Washington facility. Next, a rough topographical map of Japan is shown. Closeup of elevated railroad train traveling in Hiroshima, Japan. Imperial Japanese Army motorized vehicles are shown on parade, including fully tracked open personnel carriers with soldiers aboard and Type 94 Tankettes being driven by individual soldiers. Japanese infantry marching in full field gear including shouldered rifles with fixed bayonets. Closeup of a Japanese Army officer. Glimpse of Japanese support troops, such as quartermaster elements, in black uniforms. Japanese technicians in white lab coats at a wartime facility. Japanese Navy Warships being launched from Hiroshima ship yards. A lone B-29 bomber seen in flight over clouds. Its tail number, 42-63735 is clearly seen. It displays a large "05" on it upper tail. (This is not the "Enola Gay" whose tail number was 44-86292.) Closeup of one of the aircraft's engines with propeller turning. Glimpse upward from interior of the aircraft. Scene shifts to aerial photograph of Hiroshima with overlay depicting the bomb strike zone. Animated map showing explosion and precise point ot detonation above the junction of the Motoyasu and Ota Rivers. A view at the ground of destruction from the atomic explosion. An American soldier stands in the midst of the destruction. Slabs of heavy concrete are destroyed. View looking East from ground zero, past a burned tree trunk in the foreground, where the shells of several stronger buildings still stand amidst a sea of rubble. To the South, hardly anything is left standing. Looking West, everything is essentially leveled.
Protective measures taken to protect machinery at Japan Iron and Steel Works, Yawata from incendiary attacks of World War II.
Protective measures taken at the Japan Iron and Steel Works, Yawata (also called Yawata Steel Works) to face the incendiary attacks during World War II. Heavy reinforced concrete portable blocks used at the Japan Iron and Steel Works to protect machinery. The building opposite the river from Tokyo Electric building where gel incendiary bomb landed at an angle onto the front face of tile work. A black smudge left by the bomb. Concrete revetments used to protect transformers from blast and fragmentation at the Japan Iron and Steel at Yawata. Sand filled heavy plank walls used to protect transformers.
U.S. orientation film for Allied occupation forces, to provide background for understanding Japanese and their society
Background information for United States occupation forces in Japan after end of World War II. At start, the film shows sky filled with U.S. Navy airplanes flying in formations. They include Vought F4U Corsair aircraft, among others, and are seen overhead above the Battleship USS Missouri (BBB-63). Closeup of the USS Missouri with her crew in formation on deck wearing dress whites. Next, General Douglas MacArthur is seen and heard speaking from a podium on the Missouri's deck. He invites the representatives of the Emperor of Japan, and the Japanese Government, and the Japanese Imperial headquarters, to sign the instrument of surrender. The date is September 2, 1945, just after the end of World War 2. Closeups of the Japanese delegation, which includes envoys Foreign Minister Mamora Shigemitsu and General Yoshijiro Umezu, and of MacArthur. Japanese Foreign Minister Mamora Shigemitsu sits at a table. Closeups of him signing the surrender document. Change of scene to Japan, where camera pans over many thousands of Japanese people assembled to learn of their fate. Closeups of Japanese soldiers and family members, as Narrator asks how should the U.S. occupying force treat them. View of soldiers in plain non-military uniforms. Views of Japanese responding en masse to a leader, during World War 2. Views of child victims of the war. Closeup of Japanese soldier firing a short barrel light machine gun. Views of Japanese pedestrians including families, most in western dress. Japanese workers in an office. Film shows artists view of one worker's brain, and then many brains, as Narrator refers to need for reorienting Japanese thinking. View of learned wise Japanese leader at a podium. View of a Japanese soldier posed with his sword above the head of a war prisoner. Japanese mother feeding her baby. Closeups of Japanese babies. Closeups of Japanese school age children, in a group, and some doing things in school, and some at a playground. Group of uniformed Japanese students studying the art of Japanese calligraphy. Students doing artwork, studying nature outdoors, and paying attention to a teacher using a black board to explain how to calculate volumes of different shaped vessels. Students in classes of Geography and of geology. Japanese chemists, architects, and lawyers at work. Telephone switchboard operators at work. Electrified train moving on a track.
A blast furnace area and allied plants within Japan Iron and Steel Works at Kitakyushu in Kyushu, Japan.
Japan Iron and Steel Works at Yawata (Yawata Steel Works) in Kitakyushu, Kyushu, Japan. Various views of a blast furnace area and allied plants. Japanese workers walk around.
