Bomb damage to Kyobashi district in Tokyo, Japan. A streetcar travels down the street as reveals bomb damage from the allied bombing of Tokyo. Shots of a canal that runs through the main district of Tokyo. A boat in the canal passing under a bridge. Damaged buildings. (World War II period).
Radio Tokyo Station announcer Iva Toguri D'Aquino (wrongly accused of being Tokyo Rose) speaks in English about her life since the day she left Los Angeles where she was born and came to Japan to visit a sick aunt. This is during a re-enacted broadcast of the 'Zero Hour' in which she played the character 'Orphan Ann' from Radio Tokyo. She talks about how she came to work for the Japanese government.
Bomb damage in Tokyo, Japan after World War II. Two American soldiers look at hand pumpers for fighting fires. Ruins in the background. Primitive hand pumper for fighting fires. Japanese alphabets (Chinese characters) on the hand pumper, of which letters on the side of pumper shows that the pumper belongs to "No.1 District Neighborhood Association of Shibaseiou-cho Town", Shiba-Ward, Tokyo (Current address; Shibanichoume-Town, Minato-Ward, Tokyo). So presumably these scenes were shot in the vinicity of Shibaseiou-cho Town.
Doolittle Field in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo street and sign over entrance to park: 'Doolittle Field'. Another sign reads 'Hibiya Tennis Courts'. Doolittle Field is presently known as Hibiya Park located in Minato-ward, Tokyo. Vehicles and people enter and come out at the entrance gate.
The British Embassy in Tokyo, Japan (No 1 Ichiban-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo). People walk on the Chidorigafuchi Park outside the British Embassy. Sakura cherry blossom trees along the sides of the Chidorigafuchi Park. Men on bicycles pass on street. British family watches the sakura trees. Exterior of the American Embassy in Tokyo (1-10-5, Akasaka, Minato-ku).
United States troops learn customs and languages from Japanese girls in Tokyo, Japan. Buildings on a street. An American soldier strolls the Ginza shopping district with a Japanese girlfriend. The troops stand on the street. A Japanese woman walks past the troops on the street. American troops walk with two Japanese girls on the grounds of the Tokyo Imperial Palace (1-1 Chiyoda, Chiyoda-ku 100-0001 Tokyo). Two soldiers with the girls pose as a man takes pictures. Soldiers with Japanese girls, wearing Western dresses, walk on a street. Vehicles drive on the street. Soldiers strolling in Hibiya Park (1-6 Hibiyakouen, Chiyoda-ku, Toukyou-To 100-0012). A girl in a garden teaches language to a soldier. A soldier seated on side of a road speaks to Japanese girls in sign language.
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