Men practice archery at a sports school in Japan. Pupils in special archer's dress hold their bows and sit in position. Archers aim arrows at a target. The target board pierced by a number of arrows.
United States 12th Marine 3rd Marine division FMF conducts artillery exercise near Mount Fuji in Japan. Sailors send messages over telephone and conduct exercise with field pieces and rockets. Sign reads “HEADQUARTERS 12TH MARINES 3RD MARINE DIV. FMF”. Marines practice using artillery under a camouflage net. A Marine using a headphone. A commander gives out orders. U.S. Marines firing rocket artillery near Mt. Fuji. Rocket artillery creates loud and bright explosions.
Newly elected members of National Assembly of Japan in a meeting. Members of the House of Representatives wear a button on their collars. Ancient assembly Diet in session. Japanese in a procession to mark the new civil rights celebrations. A judicial trial at a court room is seen. Disestablishment of Shinto religion and people of different religions pray at their places of worship. Japanese children being taught in classroom under a new democratic educational system. Free press in the country, newspapers being printed and sold.
The chief of communicable disease along with other officers works on a plan to control the spread of typhoid in Japan. DDT disinfectant being sprayed in a house and a patient being carried to hospital. Doctor explains the importance of public health to people on street. Japanese stand in queue to be sprayed with DDT powder. People line up to get rationed food under public distribution system. Japanese women shop for clothes. Reconstruction work in progress at factories and a church.
Modernization of Japan through World War II. Japanese civilians seen. Japanese civilians bow down to the Superiors. Many scenes of Japanese military and cilvilian persons as they bow to others. Japanese girls sold by their fathers working in factories. Women work in the rice fields. Men wearing local hats seen. Japanese peasants working hard. Japanese people use telephones in office and living in traditional Japanese homes. Simply furnished Japanese homes without chairs, windows and beds seen. Japanese family wearing kimonos, eating food. Japanese men in kokumin-fuku worker uniforms working in a factory producing war materiel and armament for the war effort in World War II.
United States 1st Provisional Marine Brigade boards a ship at Japan. Several Marines wait for their turn to board a ship on the dock. Marines go up a ladder in the background. Marines on the wooden dock. Buildings in the background.
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