Title card notes that Babe Ruth got a 'hero's ovation' when he came to Japan, leading an American all-star team that visited after the 1934 season. Brief shot of some team members shows Ruth in center, manager Connie Mack on right, and several other players. Game action at unidentified Japanese stadium. Japanese people watch the game featuring Japanese baseball teams and players. (Note: Baseball was introduced to Japan in 1872 by Horace Wilson, an English professor at the Kaisei Gakko School in Tokyo. The first baseball team was called the Shimbashi Athletic Club and was established in 1878.)
The entrance to the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan. View of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in the Kasumigaseki district before it was destroyed by fire during the Great Kanto Earthquake. A car drives away from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building. Pedestrians walking outside the Ministry of Justice building (1-1-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0013). View of the Imperial Diet building, now known as the National Diet building (1 Chome-7-1 Nagatachō, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-0014, Japan). Emperor Hirohito on horseback inspects Japanese troops. Marching Imperial Japanese Army troops before World War II. Emperor Hirohito boards a Japanese Navy ship. Sailors in Japanese Navy ships.
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.
Cotton production, transport, and urbanization in Japan. Shipment of raw cotton from the United States are unloaded from a freighter on a Japanese port. Dock worker pulls lever. The package is offloaded from the ship. Various machines process United States cotton in Japanese factories. OSK Line ship Naruto Maru sailing in New York City. The captain of the Naruto Maru stands beside the Japanese flag. The urbanization of Japanese cities. Overcrowded houses and slum areas because of industrialization in Japan. Vehicles move on the road in a Japanese city.
CARE report from Chief of Mission,Japan to New York office. Japanese boy is checked for symptoms by a Japanese doctor. Mother and Father of Japanese boy sit beside him. Japanese boy checked by doctor in a hospital in Japan. Doctors and nurses in hospital. People in CARE office do their work. Woman in CARE office in New York reads a report. Packets of CARE supplies off loaded from a ship. CARE supply packets delivered to people.1950.
Scenes depicting daily life for children in Japan during World War II. View of Mount Fuji in Japan. Japanese children walk through terraced rice and tea fields on their way to school during World War 2. Japanese schoolgirl carries a bento box wrapped with traditional Furoshiki cloth. Other children carry Western-style lunchboxes. Japanese schoolchildren carry standard randoseru backpacks. Children pass by a tea picker working. Children walk past boats and nets. Japanese school children passing by factories with smokestacks. A Japanese boy, his sister and father put on shoes together before leaving their house. Japanese children are wearing the standard school uniform while their father is wearing a Waffenrock-style Western coat. A Japanese grandmother eats breakfast with a young grandson. Grandmother helps her grandson finish his tea. Japanese mother says “iterasshai” (“Go ahead and come back later” in Japanese), the children reply using a more polite form of language to their mother. The Japanese woman bids her husband good-bye using the same polite form of language her children used. Father accompanies his children on the street on his way to work. The three stops at a post office and the boy posts a letter. Japanese father talks to his daughter while waiting outside the post office. Japanese father bids good-bye to his children, telling them to listen to their teacher’s lessons. Children bow to their father upon leaving. Japanese man enters his office to begin his work as a train station manager. Japanese train manager speaks on phone in his office.
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