A documentary film depicts psychology and living habits of Japanese people. Indoctrination of Japanese children in World War 2. Animated picture and a chart show the 'ratio per hundred children attending school' in various years, showing 100% of children in Japan attending school at time of World War 2. Dramatization depicts a drunkard father wanting his child to earn money for liquor. A woman arranges futon bed. Drunk Japanese man gets up from his futon bed. A male teacher attempts to take the child to the school. Japanese man and neighbors confront and assault the male teacher. Japanese boy in school uniform is welcomed by the male teacher. An apologetic man bows to the teacher. A Japanese woman reads a message brought by a post man. A girl stands next to the woman. People read from bulletin stands on a street. People hear radio broadcast. View of a lighthouse in Japan (likely either the Shiriyazaki Lighthouse or Kannonzaki Lighthouse). Empress Kōjun visits a lighthouse with Japanese officials. A Japanese-made radio on a shelf.
New York Yankees baseball team arrives on visit to Japan. Japan Airlines stages a welcome as the airplane parks. Team members stand in a group and wave. Japanese baseball fans stand on elevated walkway and cheer the team. Manager Casey Stengel and co-owner Del E. Webb walk together from the airplane. The team rides in cars, escorted by motorcycles, in a ticker tape parade. Casey Stengel and Del Webb wave from an open car. Streets are wet.
Riots in cities and uneasy conditions in parliament due to the Japanese-US defense pact. A large crowd of students in Japan demonstrates violently against the Japanese-US defense pact. Fight inside the Japanese parliament and Members of Parliament forcefully drag the old speaker on his chair and make him announce the approval of pact. U.S. President Dwight D Eisenhower cancels his visit to Japan. Socialist leader Asanuma delivers his speech during a program. A student runs on the stage and stabs him with a knife.
Disasters in Japan. Rescue operations in Kyushu Island after being stricken by floods. Japanese people evacuating on Honshu Island following volcanic eruptions. Flooding in Honshu Island. U.S. Air Force aircraft drop parachute food supplies over Japan.
The Mikawashima train crash in Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan. Rescue workers probe the wreckage as they search for survivors after three trains collided in Japan. The damaged train and debris spread around. The damaged buildings and belongings of passengers on ground. The dead bodies in coffins at a morgue. Japanese girls praying over coffins.
United States Air Force Chief General Hoyt S. Vandenberg in Japan during the Korean War. A car pulls up at Haneda Army Airbase at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan. Pacific Commander General Douglas MacArthur talks to U.S. Air Force Chief General Hoyt S. Vandenberg and other officers. General Douglas MacArthur boards a U.S. Air Force Air Force C-121 transport aircraft. General MacArthur talks to General Vandenberg and other officers. The car leaves the airport. Propellers of C-121 aircraft rotate. The aircraft taxis for taking off.
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