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Japanese Samurai and Bushido codes followed by modern Japanese soldiers (WW2)

A documentary film depicts Japanese psyche and living habits in World War II. Samurai (Japanese military nobility) and Bushido (Way of Warrior) are explained. A man hits a target with bow and arrow. A Japanese soldier fires. Young Japanese women practice archery. Traditional Japanese samurai and Japanese soldiers follow the same Bushido codes. A samurai warrior faces death with control. A Japanese soldier takes a ritual drink of Sake before he goes calmly on a suicide mission. Views of fallen Japanese people and soldiers, dead from suicide or Bushido codes. The war heroes are worshiped. Statues of war heroes. Japanese people visit shrines. Scenic views of Japan. Members of Japanese families walk together.

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054168
United States soldiers in combat with Japanese forces in towns and in city of Manila, Philippines (WW2)

Street fighting in Asia during World War II (Pacific Theater). Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter takes off from field. P-47 fighters dive bombing Japanese-occupied towns as American infantry squads advance in battle-scarred town. The U.S. soldiers employ rifles, bazookas, rifle grenades, hand grenades, and flame throwers (which destroy wood and other lightly constructed buildings). Americans advance under fire from Japanese snipers and return fire. United States soldiers use flamethrowers on wooden houses. A dead Japanese sniper in rubble of building. A Japanese soldier running to surrender, carrying a white flag. A staged exercise in a Burmese village, to demonstrate proper techniques for combating occupying enemy in such a setting. Huts and building in village. Soldier signals other soldiers. Two persons acting as Japanese soldiers inside a building. American soldiers wade through water. Acting Japanese soldier walks to the river side with an empty bucket. American soldier attacks the acting Japanese soldier from behind. Views of various Japanese cities, like Tokyo, Yokohama and Nagoya. Traffic with pedestrians on road. Smoke arising from U.S. artillery shelling of Manila. U.S. Army artillery battery firing field pieces at targets in Manila. Smoke in the streets during the 1945 Battle of Manila. U.S. Soldiers advance through burning Filipino buildings. They advance in groups. U.S. soldiers firing in streets and helping wounded soldier to cross street in front of the import-export business Levy & Blum Inc (345 Echague, Quiapo, Manila, Philippines). They take cover behind rubble. Soldiers engage in street fighting against the Japanese in front of boarded store in Ongpin street, Binondo (Manila Chinatown district). Troops pass by a wrecked building. U.S. soldiers gathered around a chart. They fire gun from hole in wall. Soldiers check houses for booby-traps. Soldier at window of building. Tanks and troops advance. Smoke screen in street. Soldier talks into radio. Captured Japanese march under guard.

Date: 1945
Duration: 5 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052671
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
View of the Tokyo Imperial Palace in Japan after World War II

The Tokyo Imperial Palace after World War II. View of a tower on the grounds of the Tokyo Imperial Palace (1-1 Chiyoda, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-8111, Japan) in Chiyoda, Tokyo. Japanese soldiers with a small boy as they walk past a gateway. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, August 20
Duration: 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059781
Life of people in Tokyo, Japan after the Allied bombings during World War II.

Aftermath of Allied bombings in Tokyo, Japan during World War II. Bombed out outskirts of Tokyo. An American jeep drives past the debris. Two civilians push a hand cart in the foreground. A bombed out house and a sign on a post reads ' Tokyo'. In Tokyo, streetcars pass an intact building. A guard outside the Sakashita-mon gate on the grounds of the Imperial Palace. A man with a long beard in white clothes. Young Japanese womend in the middle of a street bow towards Sakashita-mon and the Emperor's residence.

Date: 1945, August 20
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059786
Japanese laborers, agrarians and white collar workers listen to speeches held in the Imperial Park in Tokyo.

Speeches held during May Day demonstrations in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese laborers, agrarians and white collar workers gather and listen to a speaker in the Imperial Park. The speaker on a makeshift stand is Mr. Kenichi Ito, Kanto District Trade Union. People listen to the speaker. A group of girls with red bandanas on their head. A group of people sit on the ground and listen to the speaker. Red Cross Japanese nurses. Another speaker is Mr. Yoshira II, a congressman representing the Socialists party. A Communist congressman speaks to the group of workers.

Date: 1946, May 1
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060702