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Rural population's contribution to Japanese war efforts in farm and home industries during World War II

Rural population of Japan engaged in war production and support of Japan during World War 2. Japanese rural area shows farm families outside native huts. Women cook food, pump water and wash vegetables in creek. Mud and wood huts with straw roofs. Farmers in field. Harvesting in farm. Lumbers piled up outside a building. Civilian men work with lumber. Women prepare handicrafts outside house. Home industries. Interiors show workers at work including men, women, and children working in war effort. Japanese family eats food and elderly Japanese woman smokes a pipe. Japanese people walk through rubble and debris after Great Kanto earthquake of 1923. Shows areas of rubble and workers digging through earthquake rubble, along with United States citizens involved in effort on the ground and through material relief support from America.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052995
Japanese soldiers march through a torii and into Yasukuni Shrine in Japan prior to World War II.

Soldiers marching in the Yasukuni Shrine (3 Chome-1-1 Kudankita, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 102-8246, Japan), in Tokyo, Japan prior to World War 2. . Soldiers visit the shrine to commemorate Japanese troops who died in the wars involving Japan since the Meiji period. Soldiers march through a torii and into the shrine. The Imperial Seal of Japan, known as the Chrysanthemum Seal (菊紋, kikumon), is displayed in front of the Yasukuni Shrine. Officers salute in front of a map.

Date: 1938, September
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050885
Wounded Japanese soldiers leave Yasukuni Shrine and enter buses in Japan.

Wounded Japanese troops visit the Yasukuni Shrine (3 Chome-1-1 Kudankita, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 102-8246, Japan) in Tokyo, Japan. Visitors commemorate the Japanese people killed on foreign soil in wars involving Japan since the Meiji period. A group of wounded soldiers (wearing white robes) leaves the shrine. The Imperial Seal of Japan, known as the Chrysanthemum Seal (菊紋, kikumon), is displayed in front of the Yasukuni Shrine. A man in uniform accompanies the group of wounded soldiers. Soldiers put on their caps while walking. Two soldiers sitting near a window in a bus, watching a woman and a child near the window outside. Wounded soldiers get into buses. A woman standing at the gate of a bus bows as the soldiers enter the bus. (Note: the conflict creating casualties at this time is probably on the Manchuko border with the Soviet Union.)

Date: 1938, September
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050886
U.S. defeats Japan in Pacific through air power in World War II; multiple views of American combat aircraft in action in World War 2

From "The Last Bomb": The defeat of Japan through American airpower in World War 2. Mix of actual combat footage and a small amount of vintage, dramatized, pilot in cockpit footage. A single B-29 from the 39th Bomb Group (stationed at North Field Guam) drops clusters of incendiary and fragmentation bombs over Japan. Bombs away view of large number of bombs falling toward Japan. A formation of B-29s from the 498th Bomb Group, Isley Field, Saipan, in flight during a daytime bombing mission over Japan. Explosions and smoke rise from targets in Japan, including two Japanese aircraft plants and an airdrome as part of U.S. tactical plan 574. Color, low aerial view of massive bomb damage over Tokyo following U.S. air attacks of March 1945. Escorting P-51s from Iwo Jima engage defending Japanese fighter aircraft in dogfights. Aerial gun camera footage of Japanese airplanes being hit, exploding, bursting into flames, and falling from sky to crash. Later, P-51s conduct strafing attacks against Japanese ground targets, including: lines of communication; railroads; marshaling yards; factories; airfields; ships; and harbors. Color gun camera footage shows these strafing attacks. P-51s returning to land at Iwo Jima and performing celebratory rolls over the field. Crippled B-29s making emergency landings on Iwo Jima. A B-29 from 500th Bomb Group with an engine shutdown. A B-29 from the 29th Bomb Group. Bad weather over runway at Iwo Jima forces a P-51 pilot to bail out over the field. A B-29 from the 6th Bomb Group ditches in water near beach on Iwo Jima. A B-29 crashes and bursts into flames during landing at Iwo Jima (all crew escapes.) Firefighters douse the flames with foam. Formation of B-29s from 39th Bomb Group returning to Guam after bombing mission over Japan. A B-29 crashing on landing and bursting into flames. Sole surviving crew member being carried on stretcher, as firemen and rescue teams work at scene. Formations of B-29s from 498th Bomb Group and 9th Bomb Group, in flight. Good color view from B-29 of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, which brought about the capitulation of Japan and end of World War 2. Large mushroom cloud rising into the air following atomic bomb explosion at Nagasaki.

Date: 1945
Duration: 15 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051973
Western tourists visit Asakusa, Matsuya Department Store, and Dai-Nippon Beer Company in Japan.

Aerial view of buildings and tourist attractions in Asakusa District, Tokyo, Japan. Exterior of Matsuya Department Store Building (1-4-1 Hanakawado, Taito-ku, Tokyo 111-0033). Views over Asakusa and Honjo-Ward from the top of Matsuya Department Store, Sumida River and the vehicles on the Kototoi-Bridge over Sumida River of Asakusa Ave., the facilities of Dai-Nippon Beer Company along Sumida River in the background. to Sensō-ji temple (2 Chome-3-1 Asakusa, Taito City, Tokyo 111-0032, Japan) with the five-story pagoda are also seen. The Kototoi-Bridge over Sumida River, the tugboat going down Sumida River and the rope way on the top of Matsuya Department Store. Tourists taking a walk in the Sumida Park at the riverside and boating under the truss bridge of Tobu Railway in Sumida River.

Date: 1937
Duration: 2 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024846
Factory workers separate a small mobile hand pump under the direction of Metropolitan Tokyo fire department in Tokyo, Japan.

Factory workers separate a small mobile hand pump for fire fighting under the direction of Metropolitan Tokyo fire department in Tokyo, Japan. Women operate the hand pump. Japanese fireman of the Tokyo fire department. Japanese fire fighter talks to the chief. Scenes are from soon after the end of World War 2.

Date: 1945, October 27
Duration: 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027719