Parents take a newborn baby for a Miyamairi (literally "shrine visit") to pray for good health at a Shinto shrine in Japan, during World War II. A Japanese man writes his child’s name using a calligraphy pen. Man displays his child’s name in front of an altar. A Japanese couple takes their newborn child to a Shinto shrine. The couple and the child’s grandmother sit in front of a clerk. The grandmother holds the child as mother sits next to her. The Shinto priest recites a prayer and swings a tamagushi right and left. The priest gives holy sake to the mother for the child. She feeds sake (symbolically) to child and then she drinks it. Priest folds the paper of Japanese writing and gives it to the family.
Tokyo, Japan before World War II. Views of bridge over river and birds fly near the Tokyo Imperial Palace. View of the Niju-bashi Bridge. Flock of birds flying in Tokyo. Japanese crowd in streets and residential area. Many views of modern buildings for government, offices, businesses, and residential areas of Chiyoda, Tokyo. National Diet Building (1 Chome-7-1 Nagatachō, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-0014, Japan) in Chiyoda City. Embassy buildings of foreign governments. Point of view street views of busy Tokyo streets as seen from a moving vehicle or streetcar (beneath streetcar or trolley wires). View of buildings at Ginza district. View of the iconic Wako Clock Tower (4 Chome-5-11 Ginza, Chuo City, Tokyo 104-0061, Japan) in Ginza. Night views of lighted neon signs in busy Tokyo urban center.
Views of Japan soon before World War II. Animated map shows Osaka and movement to Kobe. Elevated sweeping views of Kobe Japan harbor, ships at harbor, freight loaded in ship and ship 'Argentina Maru'. Streets of downtown Kobe with buildings and shops, and 1930s automobiles passing by pedestrians. Dock and harbor views in Kobe. Goods loaded onto ships at harbor for transport. Boxes being hoisted by cranes onto ships. Japanese citizens in passenger cruise ship wave the flag of Japan. School children in uniform stand on docks and wave at departing ship as it leaves dock. View of ocean water churning behind ocean going passenger cruise ship underway. wish the troops in the ship 'Argentina Maru'. View of sea and cherry blossoms.
Gliders are retrieved by TCC C-47s in Eindhoven, Netherlands during World War II. Animated map of Eindhoven. Gliders at Eindhoven, Netherlands. Men are in operation to overhaul the plane. 9th Troop Carrier Command C-47 lands. General P.L. Williams inspects the military operation. Men prepare for picking up gliders. Gliders are towed and ends of the ropes are tied to gliders and C-47's. A man gives signal for take off of C-47. Men use the gliders pick up device. Glider is ready for pick up. C-47 pick the glider up and flies with glider.
Small school girls play. Japanese children practice and compete in traditional Japanese martial arts Kendo with bamboo sticks. Japanese school children play tug of war and run through a line of showers on the way to a swimming pool to swim and play with a ball. (World War II period)
Children and adults volunteer and are recruited to work for ammunition factories and community work in Japan during World War II. Japanese schoolchildren with brooms head to a Shinto shrine. Children and adults worship at the Shinto shrine. They bow in front of the shrine. Japanese volunteers salute the Japanese flag. Volunteers cut grass in the field. Schoolchildren carrying buckets. Middle school students pile up rocks, cut grass and bushes on the hillside and clean up the temple. Japanese student volunteers march in a parade on the beach.1945.
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