Black and white map showing Japan, the Korean peninsula, Manchukuo (Manchuria). Animation traces the borders of Japan. European people ride carriages on rail track. A boat with the United States flag sailing in a bay. A small boat sailing a river with rocky riverside in Japan. Japanese fishermen on the riverside pull the small boat using ropes. A mill wheel in a Japanese village. Farmers with carrying poles and baskets walking on the field. An elderly man wearing a Haori hakama reads a book with a train illustration. A Japanese drawing depicting a locomotive train.
A Japanese poet composes a haiku poem. The poet writes a Haiku from his desk. He is using a traditional brush when writing the poem. Slide with haiku reads “Blind with memories, I mounted to the runs, and all was eglantines in flower”.
A doctor examines children in Japan. Children and their parents wait in line as a doctor uses a stethoscope on one of the patients. Japanese babies sitting on a small bench. Young children playing with blocks while daycare teachers watch. Youth wearing kimonos enter and leave the school gates. Japanese children play in slides, swings in the playground. Children perform mass calisthenics outdoors in the morning. Male and female students wearing Japanese attire attend English lesson in classroom. A girl stands up and corrects the sentence written on the blackboard. Japanese boys study chemistry inside a school laboratory. They examine test tubes, write down notes, and raise their hands.
Shintoism, Buddhism and Confucianism are three main religions practiced in Japan during the Shōwa era. Japanese women teach their children how to perform the Chōzu-ya (a Shinto ritual for washing hands and mouth) using a water ladle at a chōzubachi (large water-filled basin) outside a Buddhist temple. Children and women wash their hands before entering temple. Japanese worshippers bow inside a Buddhist temple. A stone statue of Buddha outdoors. Women bow in front of the main altar. A group of Shinto priests posing outside a building.
Japan as a tea drinking country. Japanese women picking tea leaves in Central or South Japan. Woman uses a Hishaku bamboo ladle to scoop tea from pot during a traditional tea ceremony. She pours tea into a bowl. She bows to another woman as part of the tea ceremony. She serves tea for the woman. The other woman drinks the tea.
Male Japanese students clean the school grounds of the Hirosaki Boys’ School in Aomori Prefecture, Japan (13-1 Minori-cho Hirosaki-shi,Aomori 036-8231). Students carry rakes and other tools. A Japanese student smiles. Groups of students use their tools to clean the field. A group of students pose for a photograph in front of the school.
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