A sign in Japanese outside Korakuen Stadium (1-3-61 Koraku, Tokyo, Japan) in Tokyo, Japan during WWII. 30,000 young people gather at the Gungo Houkou Patriotic Tournament in Tokyo. Crowds fill the stadium. The flags of the Japanese Empire are on display. Camera pans to reveal view of the National Bayukendo Training Tokyo Tournament. Groups of college students lunge with their wooden swords for Kendo, also known as Shinai, at the Yoyogi parade ground. War veterans guide the students in kendo.
Film opens with animated map showing Japan and its nearby Asian mainland neighbors. Arrows from Japan point to areas and islands that Japan considers part of the Japanese empire. In addition to Pacific islands, they include Asian mainland places, Manchuria, and the Sakhalin Islands. The map shows the Northern limit of Japan's territorial reach with a line drawn on the map at about 47 degrees North latitude. The map shows the reach of Japan's empire extending South to include all of Manchuria and in the Pacific to encompass all the scattered islands in the Pacific accessible to Japan. The map begins drawing a circular boundary to the East encompassing all these areas of the Japanese Empire. Film shifts to Japanese navy warships patrolling the Eastern Pacific boundaries of the Empire, and bi-wing aircraft flying in formation overhead. Rising sun symbol seen on underwings of biplanes. Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō who was later Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Japanese Fleet during the Russo-Japanese War is seen seen as a young Admiral in 1895. Next, he is seen in 1934 at the age of 86, coming out of a barn and walking toward the camera. He is bent over and walks slowly, dressed in woolens and wearing thick eye glasses. (He died on May 30, 1934.)
Wounded U.S. soldiers evacuated to Tokyo. Special ramp mounted on jeep is moved up to plane for unloading of wounded. Banner on ramp reads '374th Troop Carrier Wing. Hospital Evacuation.' A bus backs up near the ramp. Wounded man on stretcher is taken aboard an ambulance bus. Japanese carry wounded man on stretcher from plane to hospital bus. A soldier with his arm in cast lying on a stretcher in center aisle. Hospital bus en route. Patients on stretchers taken up ramp to receiving ward of the Tokyo General Hospital.
Deer hunt begins in Nikko. Japanese go for deer hunting in mountains of Nikko. They have guns with them. They hunt the deer from hidden places. Japanese hunter shoots the deer. View of field in Nikko.
Western tourists visit Meijijingu Shinto Shrine and Ueno Zoological Garden in Tokyo: They stand at the Torii Gate in the precincts on the way to the sanctuary. They see a bear, snake, ape, ducks and swan. Tourists seated at table in zoo. They watch animal. They swing in zoo. Giraffe in a cage. Bactrian camels in zoo.
Shows methodist mission Hirosaki boys school students exercise. Japanese boys in gym uniforms stretch and do exercises and calisthenics. Film shot approximately in 1934-35.
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