A Japanese Army hospital in Japan. One legged soldiers pose for pictures with bicycles. Nurses also pose with the soldiers. A photographer clicks pictures. A close up of a nurse and a soldier. A close up of a foot showing an iron leg. A few soldiers ride the bicycles. Others walk away with the bicycles. Nurses and patients walking on a path on the hospital grounds. A soldier walks on crutches.
Conditions in Japan in 1927-1928. An animated map of the Pacific Ocean depicts the growth of Japanese military might since 1894. The map depicts areas under Japanese empire in 1894, the Chinese Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Russian Japanese War Of 1904-1905 (Russo-Japanese War), the territory under Japanese influence and World War I from 1914-1918. Officers watch as Japanese soldiers march. Japanese cavalry units. Soldiers run forward. Japanese Emperor Hirohito looks at the maneuvers at the Imperial Japanese Military Academy in Tokyo. He salutes standing at a dais. The soldiers parade. A naval smoke screen is laid to shield the army at a river crossing. The Emperor looks on as soldiers in a barge land at a shore. Two vessels in a water body. Japanese sailors march. Emperor Hirohito in conversation with military officials. From the deck of his flagship 'Katori', he watches as naval guns are fired.
Opening scene shows cadets at the Imperial Japanese Military Academy in Tokyo, practicing Kendo martial art using bamboo swords (shinai) and wearing protective armor (bōgu). Next the cadets run an obstacle course. We see them leaping over a wall and then running over wooden poles across a deep open pit. They then leap another wall and climb out of a deep ditch and over a stone wall to the top. Next, students are seen demonstrating kendo in a courtyard at the a Military School in Kobe, Japan. Many spectators watch the demonstration.
Japanese people work to help soldiers and contribute to the war effort on the home front in Japan during World War II. Man puts charcoal into a gas tank of bus. Charcoal bus departs. Japanese soldier's caps being made on sewing machine. School children collect metals. Boy buys Japanese war bond at a post office. People put coins into a safe. Monoplane (fighter) being contributed by a school. Several Japanese biplane aircraft take off. Small Japanese tanks at a parade in Tokyo with view of Imperial Palace in background. People watch the tanks.
Japanese people working on home front in Japan to help Japanese soldiers and war effort during World War II. Crates of freshly caught fish. Fish being sundried in racks. A woman gathers dried fish from racks. People in fishing village as they process split, dried fish for the soldiers. Men fasten wooden crates with rope. Women harvesting vegetables near Mount Fuji. Girls plow a farm field with the help of a horse. Piles of rabbit skins in a factory. Men load the rabbit skins in a truck. The truck departs.
USS Tirante SS-420 submarine in Japan. An enlisted boy looks through binoculars aboard the submarine. Commander George L Street III looks through binoculars. Japanese junk boat (Wasen) comes alongside the USS Tirante. Japanese fishermen brought aboard the USS Tirante. The junk boat is set on fire. Junk boat burns at night. Periscope view of large rock extending above water.
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