Routine activities aboard a Japanese battleship during World War II. Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) officer looks through binoculars. Another battleship in the background. Imperial Japanese Navy sailor on deck of ship releases weather balloon. Another sailor looks through a telescope. Japanese sailor looks at a timepiece and another sailor annotate a navigation log. A sailor plots ship's position using a pair of compasses. Bow of Japanese battleship swept by waves in rough sea. Sailors work on deck in rainy weather. Sailor empties water from the deck into containers. Several cooks put baskets of rice into large boiling pots. Fish placed on net trays and into boiler. Potatoes being washed and thrown into basket from a peeler machine.
Peaceful conditions. View of a large rainbow. View from deck of surfaced submarine underway in a column of warships during World War 2. Crew at controls inside the submarine. Crew taking baths on submarine deck. Japanese crew members in mess hall, eating meal inside submarine. Sunset. A blinker light flashing signals from another ship, in the dark.
Japanese submarine underway. Japanese Navy personnel marching on drill ground. Instructor teaches naval students in a class room. Portrait of Admiral Tojo. Japanese Navy students listen and watch during training. Models of various types of Japanese submarines. Portrait of Japanese naval officer. Park shows Japanese submarine, used as training model. Japanese sailors work on controls in engine room of the submarine. World map displayed on wall. Small Japanese submarine underway. Freighter burns after being torpedoed. Some newspaper clippings in Japanese showing images of Germany's Adolf Hitler. Map shows South West Pacific Area stretching all the way to United States and a picture of the submarine on the map.
Japanese Navy sailor students work in engine room inside submarine. Students enter large model submarine on beach. Instructor holding model submarine, shows students its construction features. He shows the location of main valves through diagram on blackboard. Japanese sailors operate wheels which controls ballast.
Japanese flag flies in front of building. Japanese sailor operates lever of valves in engine room of submarine. Japanese Navy sailors in training test batteries and receive instruction in care of batteries. Instructor explains principles of underwater sound. Japanese Navy students get instruction from senior officers.
Japanese naval officer instructs Japanese sailors in training on underwater sound through a diagram on blackboard. Students leave the class room. Japanese Navy officer wears headphone to check sound. Japanese student makes sound in a pipe and the other wears stethoscope-like device on ears.