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Japanese and Americans learn about each other during postwar occupation.

United States soldiers visit a Shinto Shrine during military occupation of Japan after WW2. A smiling Japanese woman. Two Americans enter a Japanese establishment where they attempt to follow Japanese customs, seated on the floor, sipping tea, and eating seafood with chopsticks. Japanese women look at sign advertising the movie, "Mother wore Tights" starring Betty Grable. The two Japanese women smile while viewing the sign. Scenes at U.S. Military sponsored Fair, called "Panoramic View of USA." where Japanese visitors tour smaller scale models and facsimiles of major American sites and landmarks, such as the White House, Pittsburgh "City of Steel", and famous American skyscrapers. Japanese parents and children are seen looking at Christmas displays in a local store, that includes a Santa Claus. Under the American occupation, Boy Scouts were revived in Japan. At an International Jamboree, scouts hold out a flag reading: " International Boy Scouts Troop 3, Yokohama, Japan." Japanese Boy Scouts pitch their tents and cook over campfires. American and Japanese Scoutmasters converse.

Date: 1950
Duration: 2 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024879
Allied and Japanese representatives sign peace document in Yokohama, Japan.

United States Missouri, destroyer warship. Allied representatives disembark from ship. They get in to the car. Japanese representatives stand. Photographers take pictures. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, September 2
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025838
Views of Japan and its militarism from 1937 through 1943 . Construction of B-29 bombers in the United States

Volcanic eruption and creation of island of Japan. Glimpse of map of Japan. Gardens and rivers. Two men demonstrate samurai sword techniques. Japanese soldiers advance through smoke carrying rising sun flag. Chinese suffering under Japanese military occupation. Two executed with rifles. Japanese soldiers waving weapons and red ball flags. A DC-3 aircraft flying over a Japanese Pagoda. Vies of Old Japan. Farmers at work. One manually turning a water pump with his feet. A man using a pole to propel a boat. Modern methods adopted in Japan for terraced farming. Japanese building railroads. Japanese modern locomotive on South Manchurian Railway. in 1934. A Japanese twin engine bomber taking off. The Japanese ocean liner, Asama Maru, in the 1930s. Glimpse of numerous ships in Tokyo harbor. Western style architecture in modern Tokyo buildings. Neon lights on the Grand Palace Hotel and other establishments in Tokyo. Industrial smoke stacks. Women at work in a silk factory. Finished product stamped "Made in Japan."Steel ingots being made in a Japanese steel mill using scrap iron imported from the U.S.A. Chinese victims of 2nd Sino-Japanese War. Japanese troops on parade. Dead American Marines on shore of Tarawa Atoll in the Pacific in World War 2, killed in battle. Japanese high ranking officers reviewing troops on parade. Japanese warships underway. Troops parading beneath the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. American B-25 bombers on flight deck of the USS Hornet, headed to bomb Tokyo.A crew of Doolittle's Raiders standing by their plane. B-25 taking off from the Hornet. Formation of B-25s in flight. View from bomber of smoke rising from bombing of Tokyo below. Brigadier General Jimmie Doolittle pledging to repeat bombing of Tokyo. Supply train entering a Boeing Company defense plant. United States war production workers being scrutinized as they enter the facility and punching in at a time clock. Poster in the plant picturing a B-29 bomber aircraft on a message in German describing it as an instrument for a "Destruction Battle against the Luftwaffe." Bold letters, above, in English read: "They're Promised-Let's Deliver 'em!" And, below, the words: "B-29, Super Bombers." Slabs of aluminum sheets fill a factory room. Overhead traveling cranes move them. Workers in airplane manufacturing and assembly plant use heat and brakes to shape the aluminum sheets. Multiple views of the aluminum being machined and stamped to specifications. Wings being fabricated. Relatively unskilled labor using jigs to perform the work. Woman war worker operating an overhead crane moving a wing in the plant. Views of plane parts moving across the ceiling via cranes. Women workers driving rivets into wings. Men and women employees working inside fuel fuel compartments of wings. A floor full of engine nacelles. A floor full of 2200 HP radial engines. A skeleton nose section being fabricated. Midsections and bomb bays being assembled. Workers crawling through the airframe during aircraft assembly. A woman working on a connecting tunnel. Sub-assemblies made by contractors arriving at the plant. More views of Boeing employees including young, old, men, and women, at work in the plant.

Date: 1944
Duration: 11 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046523
V-J day is celebrated by liberated Allied soldiers, freed from Japanese prison camps at end of World War 2 in the Pacific

Scenes of Allied soldiers celebrating Victory over Japan at the end of World War 2. Most scenes show liberated Allied prisoners of war as they celebrate being freed from Japanese prison camps. Many of the former POW soldiers are emaciated, starved, and thin, and show signs of abuse. Smiling liberated prisoners gather at a dock beside a prison camp compound and cheer an approaching relief boat. Letters painted atop bombed out building include "US Army Come After Us" alerting allies to the presence of their prison camp. Freed prisoners in another camp pose together, smiling and cheering. Freed prisoners pass around a flask of booze and share drinks in celebration. Views of a prison complex and prison grounds, after liberation, with U.S. Army and other Allied soldiers eating food and washing. Many are emaciated. U.S. Army officer interviews a liberated prisoner and takes notes. Two freed prisoners hold up a bat that was used to beat prisoners, among various atrocities committed by Japanese guards. A soldier holds up his burned and battered hands. His right hand is possibly also missing the thumb. Interior view of a barren prison barracks is shown, with only thin blankets on floors. An Americna soldier stacks up boxes of Red Cross supplies that had been sent to the camps for the prisoners, but which were stolen by Japanese guards. Liberated prisoners stand beside the graves of several dead soldiers. Final scene shows three Japanese former prison guards bowing before two liberated prisoners as the freed soldiers exit the Ofuna prison camp, near Yokohama, Japan.

Date: 1945, August
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058336
Post-war ground views of damage to Yokahoma, Japan, from bombing by U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II

Post-war views of damage from USAAF bombing of Yokohama, Japan, during World War 2. Steel skeleton of a burnt out warehouse, at a harbor. Interior of the bomb damaged warehouse. Buildings in the background. Damaged ships and damaged warehouses. Japanese men wheel a load of lumber on a two-wheel cart. A burnt storeroom. A Japanese sign lying in the rubble. Wreckage of a cannery and damaged area of cranes at the docks.

Date: 1945, September 5
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675054460
Runup to Yokohama War Crimes Trial of Kuroda and others; Clips of Trial of General Yamashita in Manila 1945 (WW2)

First part deals with World War II Allied war crimes trials of Japanese defendants in detained in Omori Prisoner of War Camp in Tokyo, Japan. Soldiers unload luggage from the back of a truck in Omori Prisoner of War Camp. Captured Japanese generals bring their luggage to prison camp. Sign reads “XI Corps Stockade #2 Omori P.O.W. Camp”. 8th Army Chief General Clovis E. Byers and Lieutenant Colonel Salvi, Commandant of Omori, talking to each other. Japanese military officials in Omori Prison Camp include Admiral Shigetaro Shimada, Commander Shigemori Kuroda, General Masaharu Homma and Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto. Second part is Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita on trial for war crimes in Manila, Philippines. Few Military soldiers talk to each other at a camp. Few views of Japanese Generals under trials for war crimes. General Yamashita brought for the trial. General Yamashita enters a court in Manila for the trial. An interior view of the trial court. General Russel Burton Reynolds presides the trial session. General Yamashita sits on a chair at his trial. A member of the trial court reads a document. Lawyers give their points during the session. General Yamashita is taken out after the trial session in court.

Date: 1945, November
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065418