Opening scene shows instructor on a raised platform drilling students in preliminaries for Kendo training. Next, the students divided into two large teams, charge each other in combat exercise. The students wear protective armor (Bogu) and wield wooden swords (Bokken).
Japanese Emperor Hirohito, riding a white horse, leads a procession of officers on a visit to Japanese troops engaged in training. They turn at a Torii (ceremonial gate). Troops are seen in formation and marching in precise formation. Next the emperor is seen wearing a white hat with a white plume, as he reviews a unit of mounted cavalry. Japanese soldiers take Calisthenics en masse in an open training ground. Closeup of Emperor Hirohito riding with an accompanying officer.Various views of the Emperor, one wearing a cloak. He speaks to assembled soldiers. Again, he is seen astride the white horse, wearing the ceremonial hat with white plume. He is followed by two officers, one of whom also wears a cap with white plume. The emperor walking to a podium followed by officers. He salutes and begins to speak. Profile of the Emperor speaking. A Shinto gate (Torii) is seen as the film concludes.
USS Crosley rescued 45 Japanese survivors. United States officer meets Japanese official during the reunion ceremony. United States Naval Officers open their shoes and pray in traditional Japanese way. Japanese priest performs ceremony inside a temple. Japanese civilians aboard the ship. Children eat and drink.
Opening sequence shows a formal Japanese slow ritual dance performed before a gathering of beautifully costumed observers. An elegantly costumed leader ascends steps and strikes an elaborately decorated cymbal. A chorus of whistle-like sounds is heard as accompanying music throughout. Dancers perform with swords and shields in slow tempo. Slate announces year 1905. A flotilla of Japanese warships makes way through heavy seas during the Russo-Japanese war. The Japanese battleship Mikasa, flagship of Admiral Togo Heihachiro,firing her twin 12 inch guns during the battle of Tsushima. A statue of Admiral Togo. Two sailors bow before shrine to Admiral Togo.
Japanese Nakajima airplanes take off from an airfield on Japanese-held island in Pacific. Soldiers and people stand on the airfield. People watch the planes take off. Soldiers wave flags. Japanese officer waves hat on the platform. People in the background. Civilians wave at departing Japanese planes. (World War II period).
Opening scene shows a ship at sea seen through cloud filled sky from an aircraft flying above it. Closer aerial view from below clouds. Change of scene to Japanese sailors in Dress White uniforms gathered on the deck of an aircraft carrier, underway at sea. Four heavy gun barrels swung to port on a Japanese warship at sea. Her high speed creates a heavy bow wave. Japanese Naval Ensign aloft on ship's mast. Naval officers, in Dress whites, on the bridge of a Japanese warship. A Japanese Commander at a table with other officers aboard a warship. Japanese sailors busy on deck cleaning and maintaining the ship. Closeup of a Mitsubishi F1M reconnaissance float plane aboard a Japanese war ship. Closeups of several Japanese Navy pilots in flight gear on deck of a ship. They climb aboard Mitsubishi F1M float planes. One is seen catapulted off the ship. It returns flying overhead toward the camera. View of the Japanese battleship, Ise, underway at sea. View from a Japanese warship, of a Kawanishi H6K flying boat passing low overhead.
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