Two people head to the gate of Zōjōji Temple (Zōjōji 4 Chome-7-35 Shibakoen, Minato City, Tokyo 105-0011, Japan), in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese pedestrians pass by the busy street where Zōjōji Temple is located. Stone birdbaths can be found on the left side of the Zōjōji Temple. A pigeon in bird bath. A monument stands where remains of beggars are buried. Camera shifts from temple bird bath to the monument for beggars. Entrance to cemetery of Tokugawa Hidetada (1579- 1632), the second Shogun of Japan. Temporary Zōjōji temple after the original building was destroyed by air raids during World War 2. Door to the temporary temple. A statue of Buddha in temple.
View of B-29 superfortress aircraft, of 21st Bomber Command,flying over Tokyo,Japan, with Mount Fujiyama clearly visible. Bombs falling from the B-29s. Near ground view of street and smoke rising from bomb strikes. In Washington, DC, General Henry (Hap) Arnold, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army Air Forces, and Lieutenant General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Assistant Chief of Staff , give a sendoff to crew of a XXI Bomber Command B-29 bound for the Pacific Theater. The B-29 crew write a message in chalk on a bomb, reading: "To the Warlords of Japan. We have not forgotten--the B-29s will remind you Again and Again and Again!!!" Views of the city of Tokyo, Japan, showing streets, buildings, cars and pedestrians. Animated map fades to Saipan Island. B-29s of the 21st Bomber command,73rd Bombardment Wing, 497th Bombardment Group,landing at Isley Field, Saipan, watched by airmen at the base. Animated map showing B-29 access to Japan, itself, from Saipan.Formation of B-29s in flight, and bombs falling over Japan.
A Japanse girl blows a whistle and a number of children run along a beach. Japanese children dressed in their uniforms carry a school bag as they move to school. Children play in the school ground. Principal conducts a staff meeting where he complaints about the behavior of a student.. A cleaner puts forward his point of view followed by a female and a male teacher,while one of the faculty members continue to doze through out meeting.Japanese schools are not well equipped and therefore the educational system has certain loopholes.As the meeting concludes teachers leave for their respective classrooms.One of the male teachers finds that students have drawn his sketch on the blackboard.
American soldiers study a map. U.S. officer supervises as gold and silver bars are removed from underground vault and loaded aboard 1st Cavalry Division trucks. The loaded truck drives off. (World War II period).
Aerial coverage of Japanese mainland immediately following the end of World War II. views cover broad landscape features, including harbors, villages, towns, farms, and industrial sites.
A U.S. Naval fleet attacks a Japanese coast during World War II. The naval fleet underway at sea. Explosions occur at sea. U.S. Navy Admiral William Halsey and others confer at a map. U.S. Navy aircraft in flight. A Japanese ship being strafed at sea. A man in the engine room of a ship. Naval guns fire at the coast. Explosions occur at sea. A man and a dog in the foreground and the naval fleet underway in the background.
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