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Japanese troops fight in Manchuria and people make contributions for the soldiers in Japan.

Film opens showing narrator, Japanese General Baron Sadao Araki, speaking. He is silhouetted in front of the red ball on a huge Japanese flag. Next, are scenes from Japanese mobilization and invasion of Manchuria. several Japanese troops are seen firing a 37mm gun, from a shallow trench, as a gun crew member spots from behind them using a pair of binoculars. A group of Japanese soldiers observing from a hill. Japanese troops advancing across barren terrain. Closeup of some descending a hill. A military steam locomotive displaying the Japanese flag, on a railroad track in the snow. Glimpse of soldiers atop the train. Japanese troops crossing a rice paddy on trail of brush and grass and slogging down a hill of mud. Troops moving in motor convoys of trucks. A Type 92 Osaka Armored Car driving fast past the camera. A troop train moving slowly out of a station, as crowds waving Japanese flags see the soldiers off. Army nurses in uniform with red cross armbands, march out the gate of a large building. Teachers and students pray for their troops, at a Shinto shrine. A woman using a megaphone rallies support for the war effort. Civilians line up to deliver packages for delivery to the troops. School children in a classroom write letters to the troops. A supply center where all kinds of useful items are being packaged in "comfort bags" for delivery to the troops. A large pile of comfort bags.

Date: 1933
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675025035
Japan mobilizing for war

Scenes from 1930s during lead up to Second Sino-Japanese War, and World War 2. Narration by General of the Imperial Japanese Army Baron Sadao Araki. Opening scene shows a practice drill in which male emergency workers, in white uniforms, arrive by truck and assemble in a field, as hook and ladder fire trucks filled with firemen, arrive and turn into a circle. Glimpse of women nurses in white uniforms standing near a large Red Cross flag with Japanese writing on it. Scene shifts to traffic on a busy city street. Tnen a closeup of Japanese women in white garb, passing out leaflets to people. Boy Scouts at the corner of a building and Girl Scouts at another spot, solicit contributions for the troops. They use megaphones to get the attention of busy pedestrians. The girls hold baskets to collect contributions. Women in traditional Japanese garb stand on a street corner and encourage public support for Japanese soldiers, by knitting scarfs to be sent to them. Soldiers stand on a street corner wearing sashes and displaying a banner. More girl scouts (or uniformed school girls) soliciting support for the military. View from a high vantage point overlooking a bridge filled with pedestrians. Camera pans upward showing way into downtown. Japanese people attend a public display of airplanes at an airport in Osaka, where citizens have contributed to fund them. They crowd around two biwing planes. A woman bows at a temporary shrine set up honoring Japanese fliers. Closeup of airplane fuselage with writing on it. Quartering view from front of radial engine running on the airplane. Covered search lights sitting side by side. Anti-aircraft battery consisting of sound detection listening devices and guns. A Japanese army truck on display and then driving away. Closeup of an anti-aircraft searchlight. More views of sound detection devices. Air raid sirens. Two bi-wing airplanes. The one in foreground is equipped with a center ski. A Nakajima aircraft in flight overhead. A searchlight being demonstrated at night. Glimpse of firemen extinguishing a fire in a street, during exercise. Nurses and stretcher bearers in an emergency exercise. Soldiers remove signs from an army truck. Emergency workers in full protective gear, including gas masks, demonstrate and exercise emergency procedures using gas on a city street. A rifle being fired at a target. Girls lined up with rifles in prone position on a firing range. They stand up with their rifles. Riveters working on steel girders of a building under construction. Closeup of a hot rivet being installed. People traveling on motorcycles, cars, and bicycles. Feet of pedestrians walking on sidewalk. View from above of cars, motorcycles, bicycles, and pedestrians moving near an electric tram on a city street. Passenger railroad coaches passing the camera viewing from beside railroad tracks. A clamshell bucket unloading coal from a barge. Cargo in a net being unloaded from a ship to a dock. New automobiles driving on a Japanese highway. Trains moving through a rail yard with many rail lines. Japanese business commuters walking on a railroad station platform. Japanese Women working rapidly using headsets and manual phone plugs at a switchboard in a telephone exchange. A Japanese businessman using the telephone. A woman typing on an english typewriter keyboard. Construction workers using wrenches to bolt a steel part on a structure. Various kinds of machinery running rapidly. Hot steel being handled in a steel mill. Fires in furnaces and smoke billowing from factory smoke stacks next to numerous electric power lines.

Date: 1933
Duration: 3 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675025043
U.S. exports, imports and domestic commerce by land sea and air. Census Bureau reports on American industry

New cars being offloaded from a ship at a port. Seaman and dock workers watching over railing of freighter, The "Chesire" with home port of Liverpool England. Closeup of the ship, Tara Maru, with home port Osaka, Japan. A Greek freighter in port. Passengers in rapid transit train traveling beside super highway of many lanes in the United States. View of car and truck traffic on busy highway. A Boeing 727-100 airliner and other passenger aircraft around runways and on tarmac at a civilian airport. Glimpse of various late 1960s and early 1970s cars and trucks on crowded section of highway during heavy traffic. People boarding a bus. Logs, steel tubes, and bulk cargoes being moved. A truck full of lumber. Cargo being loaded on an airplane. A cargo ship passing under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco California. Bureau of Census workers compiling data using early computers, with views of keyboards and tape drives. Bureau reports being placed in envelopes and mailed. Factory workers carrying lunch boxes. Men in business suits carrying brief cases. Entry gate of a prison, with view of permiter fencing and guard tower visible. View upward from inside the prison wall, with barbed wire atop the fence. A court building.

Date: 1970
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070328
A train collision that kills 150 and rescue operations carried on in Japan.

The Mikawashima train crash in Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan. Rescue workers probe the wreckage as they search for survivors after three trains collided in Japan. The damaged train and debris spread around. The damaged buildings and belongings of passengers on ground. The dead bodies in coffins at a morgue. Japanese girls praying over coffins.

Date: 1962, May 7
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059853
Japanese landscapes, Hirohito's coronation as emperor and shrines in Japan.

General of the Imperial Japanese Army Baron Sadao Araki narrates the film. Japanese flag is seen behind Baron Sadao Araki. Aerial view of clouds. Smoke emanates from volcanoes in Japan. Ripples being made in a lake or pond. A map of Japan. View of a Japanese waterfall. Trees grow on rocky cliffs by a river. View of the summit of Takachiho in the Kirishima Mountains (霧島山, Kirishima-yama) in Kyushu, Japan. Rice grows in a rice field in Japan. A print of the enthronement of Emperor Jimmu, the first Emperor of Japan. View of the Entrance to the Ise Grand Shrine (伊勢神宮, Ise Jingū 1 Ujitachicho, Ise, Mie 516-0023, Japan). People crossing a traditional Japanese bridge. View of the two giant “married couple rocks” (Meoto Iwa 夫婦岩575 Futamichoe, Ise, Mie 519-0602, Japan) that are joined by a Shimenawa rice-straw rope in Futami, Mie, Japan. View of the Kashihara Jingu Shrine (橿原神宮934 Kumecho, Kashihara, Nara 634-8550, Japan) in Nara, Japan. View of the Torii gate at Atsuta Shrine (熱田神宮, Atsuta-jingū 1 Chome-1-1 Jingu, Atsuta Ward, Nagoya, Aichi 456-8585, Japan) in Nagoya, Japan. Torii gate of the Meiji Shrine (明治神宮, Meiji Jingū 1-1 Yoyogikamizonocho, Shibuya City, Tokyo 151-8557, Japan) in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. View of the Nijubashi Bridge inside the Tokyo Imperial Palace grounds (1-1 Chiyoda, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-8111, Japan). View of the Kyoto Imperial Palace (3 Kyotogyoen, Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto, 602-0881, Japan) in preparation for the coronation of Emperor Hirohito. Banzai banners decorate the imperial palace. Japanese archers in traditional garb, carrying their bows. Emperor Hirohito’s procession makes its way to his coronation in Kyoto. Two 18th Century coaches bearing the Imperial Seal of Japan, also known as the Chrysanthemum Flower Seal (菊紋, kikumon) head the procession, accompanied by a mounted honor guard. Also in the procession is the Kashikodokoro (enshrining the Imperial Regalia) being carried by young men from the village of Yase, near Kyoto.

Date: 1928, November
Duration: 6 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675025037
Crown Princess Michiko, wife of Crown Prince Akihito, celebrates her 28th birthday in Japan.

Crown Princess Michiko, wife of the Crown Prince Akihito, heir to the throne of the Japanese empire, celebrates her twenty eighth birthday in Tokyo, Japan. Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko, wearing a western-style suit and kimono respectively, descend from stairs. Crown Princess Michiko and her husband sit together on a sofa in the Tokyo Imperial Palace. Her son, Prince Naruhito, runs down stairs to greet her. Prince Naruhito, aged two-years old, joins his parents on the sofa. Crown Princess Michiko reads a book to Naruhito. Naruhito playfully teases his father while the latter reads a book. The couple watch Naruhito outside on a tricycle.

Date: 1962, October 20
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036646