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Japan mobilizing for war

Scenes from 1930s during lead up to Second Sino-Japanese War, and World War 2. Narration by General of the Imperial Japanese Army Baron Sadao Araki. Opening scene shows a practice drill in which male emergency workers, in white uniforms, arrive by truck and assemble in a field, as hook and ladder fire trucks filled with firemen, arrive and turn into a circle. Glimpse of women nurses in white uniforms standing near a large Red Cross flag with Japanese writing on it. Scene shifts to traffic on a busy city street. Tnen a closeup of Japanese women in white garb, passing out leaflets to people. Boy Scouts at the corner of a building and Girl Scouts at another spot, solicit contributions for the troops. They use megaphones to get the attention of busy pedestrians. The girls hold baskets to collect contributions. Women in traditional Japanese garb stand on a street corner and encourage public support for Japanese soldiers, by knitting scarfs to be sent to them. Soldiers stand on a street corner wearing sashes and displaying a banner. More girl scouts (or uniformed school girls) soliciting support for the military. View from a high vantage point overlooking a bridge filled with pedestrians. Camera pans upward showing way into downtown. Japanese people attend a public display of airplanes at an airport in Osaka, where citizens have contributed to fund them. They crowd around two biwing planes. A woman bows at a temporary shrine set up honoring Japanese fliers. Closeup of airplane fuselage with writing on it. Quartering view from front of radial engine running on the airplane. Covered search lights sitting side by side. Anti-aircraft battery consisting of sound detection listening devices and guns. A Japanese army truck on display and then driving away. Closeup of an anti-aircraft searchlight. More views of sound detection devices. Air raid sirens. Two bi-wing airplanes. The one in foreground is equipped with a center ski. A Nakajima aircraft in flight overhead. A searchlight being demonstrated at night. Glimpse of firemen extinguishing a fire in a street, during exercise. Nurses and stretcher bearers in an emergency exercise. Soldiers remove signs from an army truck. Emergency workers in full protective gear, including gas masks, demonstrate and exercise emergency procedures using gas on a city street. A rifle being fired at a target. Girls lined up with rifles in prone position on a firing range. They stand up with their rifles. Riveters working on steel girders of a building under construction. Closeup of a hot rivet being installed. People traveling on motorcycles, cars, and bicycles. Feet of pedestrians walking on sidewalk. View from above of cars, motorcycles, bicycles, and pedestrians moving near an electric tram on a city street. Passenger railroad coaches passing the camera viewing from beside railroad tracks. A clamshell bucket unloading coal from a barge. Cargo in a net being unloaded from a ship to a dock. New automobiles driving on a Japanese highway. Trains moving through a rail yard with many rail lines. Japanese business commuters walking on a railroad station platform. Japanese Women working rapidly using headsets and manual phone plugs at a switchboard in a telephone exchange. A Japanese businessman using the telephone. A woman typing on an english typewriter keyboard. Construction workers using wrenches to bolt a steel part on a structure. Various kinds of machinery running rapidly. Hot steel being handled in a steel mill. Fires in furnaces and smoke billowing from factory smoke stacks next to numerous electric power lines.

Date: 1933
Duration: 3 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675025043
Japanese Army conducts realistic war game with live-fire exercises involving infantry, armor, artillery and aircraft.

Film opens showing a Japanese Type 89 Yi-Go tank heading straight toward the camera. Next, mounted artillerymen ride up a hill with team of horses pulling caissons. More are seen passing trees, pulling caissons and Type 91, 105mm light field howitzers. They raise a lot of dust and they race across a barren stretch of land. Elsewhere, Several soldiers are seen with large canvases laid out on the ground. Small rolled up tents appear to be lined up on one canvas. Meanwhile, the artillerymen are starting to set up positions at various spots along the crest of a hill. Closeup of one of their horses. Next, batteries of anti-aircraft guns are seen pointing skyward, each surrounded by a team of about 10 soldiers, are seen firing. Kawasaki biwing aircraft fly overhead in formation, and the anti-aircraft guns are lowered as they pass. The guns are elevated again and resume firing. Scene shifts to the field artillery, where crews are manning the 105mm howitzers and firing them. Closeup of one of the gun crews in action. Shells are seen bursting on a sandy area near a shoreline in the distance. Some field artillery under camouflage nets. An army telegrapher sends messages with his key. Several soldiers at a field communications center also send messages. Two high wing monoplanes fly overhead. Closeup from behind Japanese artillery crew firing their field piece. More views of shells striking in distance. The guns under camouflage nets are seen firing. A huge explosion nearby throws large amounts of earth into the air. Views of the antiaircraft guns and crews dissolves into views of shells exploding. Two soldiers crawl along the ground, dragging a long pole with them. Soldiers jump up and abandon their position just before a big explosion occurs there. In final scene, several soldiers are running and shouting.

Date: 1933
Duration: 4 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675025048
Japanese army conducts military exercises that involve inflatable rafts and pontoon bridges

Japanese Army conducts military exercise. Artillery shells explode in the distance. Some raise white smoke, while others create craters and throw large amounts of earth into the air. Japanese soldiers run carrying rolled up canvases. From them they remove and inflate rubber rafts that they carry up over a hill and down to a shoreline. They jump into the rafts and paddle furiously toward an opposite shore. The national red ball flag (sun-mark flag) is displayed on one raft. Closeup of occupants in one raft. Machine gun fire is heard in the background. The rafts reach the opposite shore where the troops jump out and charge up a hill in smoke. View from camera located at defensive obstacle as the troops arrive there. They place sections of pontoon bridges over the obstacles and cross over them. Then they carry bridge sections down a steep embankment to another shoreline where they place them end-to-end in the water to form a serpentine floating bridge. Soldiers on each section maneuver them with long poles into position spanning the water to the next shore. Next, armed troops are seen running across the new pontoon bridge. Two of them carry a version of a Hotchkiss machine gun (licensed by Japan as their Type 3 Heavy Machine Gun). One of the last few soldiers crossing the bridge, carries the sun-mark flag.

Date: 1933
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675025049
Industrial activity in Japan. Japanese people demonstrate spirit of Nationalism and patriotism in public gatherings.

A film narrated by General of the Imperial Japanese Army Baron Sadao Araki. Japanese flag in the background. National flags of Japan (Sun-mark flags) are seen on flag poles extending above a moving electric train and on the hood of an automobile. Front view of the train traveling along a rail line powered by overhead electrical wires, in an industrial area. A factory with smoke stacks visible in background. The train passes the camera and scene shifts to black smoke spewing from four metal smoke stacks. Then various industrial scenes are shown in rapid succession, including: a machine printing some sort of documents; an industrial crane raising a closed bucket high above the ground; view from bucket of a crane full of scrap metal being raised high in the air; an empty bucket being lowered by a crane; large shipping containers being offloaded from a ship to barges, below; longshoremen moving boxes of cargo at the port, and others carrying sacks of rice to small boats in a nearby river; a glimpse of a riveter at work; glimpse from above of moving industrial rail cars carrying liquid and bulk cargoes; ground-level views of passing railroad trains and a steam locomotive; a busy street with cars, numerous bicyclists (including one pulling a large cart loaded with boxes. Closeup of a man looking skyward, where a large flock of birds is seen. A group of laborers working in a field with hand tools, such as picks and shovels. Workers tending machinery in a fabric factory. Scene shifts back to General Baron Sadao Araki narrating, for a while, and then shows many factory workers by a large industrial plant, watching a military parade. The national flag flies from a tall flagpole in the factory yard. The color guard of the parading Japanese Imperial Army soldiers carries their rising sun flag and military unit flags. Another parade is seen on the esplanade of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Civilian marchers carry the Japanese national (Sun-mark) flag. People walk together on a street in a commercial district, displaying banners and flags. Boy Scouts parade through a gate of the Imperial Palace, carrying the National flag. An outdoor crowd of enthusiastic men listen to a speaker (unseen). A troop of Japanese soldiers pose with the National and Rising sun flags. School faculty pose in front of a large number of young women. Views downward on an outdoor crowd of cheering men. An outdoor theater, with audience seated on benches. Persons massed carrying flags, raise and lower them in unison. A huge gathering of young women, all dressed alike, outside a wall of the Imperial Palace, in Tokyo, which is seen in the background. Camera pans across them. Many uniformed men stand near the Seimon-tetsubashi Bridge to the Imperial Palace, in Tokyo. A conclave of uniformed Boy Scouts and leaders are seen saluting the Japanese National Flag. Closeup of some of them. A large gathering of Girl Scouts cheers three times, in unison. A gathering of uniformed soldiers with massed Rising Sun flags. More views of masses Rising Sun flags. People on a shore, all pulling together on a rope line. The setting sun.

Date: 1933
Duration: 5 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675025051
Zojoji Temple in Tokyo

Two people head to the gate of Zōjōji Temple (Zōjōji 4 Chome-7-35 Shibakoen, Minato City, Tokyo 105-0011, Japan), in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese pedestrians pass by the busy street where Zōjōji Temple is located. Stone birdbaths can be found on the left side of the Zōjōji Temple. A pigeon in bird bath. A monument stands where remains of beggars are buried. Camera shifts from temple bird bath to the monument for beggars. Entrance to cemetery of Tokugawa Hidetada (1579- 1632), the second Shogun of Japan. Temporary Zōjōji temple after the original building was destroyed by air raids during World War 2. Door to the temporary temple. A statue of Buddha in temple.

Date: 1945, September 11
Duration: 3 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025164
Views of Zōjōji temple in Tokyo damaged during World War II

Statue of Kannon, the Buddhist bodhisattva associated with mercy. Zōjōji temple (4 Chome-7-35 Shibakoen, Minato City, Tokyo 105-0011, Japan) and its vegetable garden show extensive damage from air raid bombings during World War 2. Rubble is scattered all over the temple grounds. A bell in Zōjōji temple. Building housing the bell shows damage. The Shiba Tōshō-gū (4 Chome-8-10 Shibakoen, Minato City, Tokyo 105-0011, Japan), enshrining the first Japanese Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, located beside the Zōjōji temple shows similar damage.

Date: 1945, September 11
Duration: 3 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025165