Students carrying trophies line up along the school principal for a photograph shoot at the Hirosaki Boys’ School in Aomori Prefecture, Japan (13-1 Minori-cho Hirosaki-shi, Aomori 036-8231). The Japanese school principal of the Methodist Mission's Hirosaki Boys school smiles on camera. The principal meets students. The principal and the students pump their arms in unison as they do the Banzai cheer together. activities everyday activities like study and discussion by teachers are shown. The Japanese principal in graduation gown stands by the doorway. Japanese boy at desk writing on a banner. The boy smiles at the camera. Shot approximately in 1934-35.
Male Japanese students clean the school grounds of the Hirosaki Boys’ School in Aomori Prefecture, Japan (13-1 Minori-cho Hirosaki-shi,Aomori 036-8231). Students carry rakes and other tools. A Japanese student smiles. Groups of students use their tools to clean the field. A group of students pose for a photograph in front of the school.
Japanese Air show at Tokyo Haneda International Airport (Hanedakuko, Ota City, Tokyo 144-0041, Japan) or Haneda Air Force Base. View of Japanese and American airplanes. Miscellaneous airplanes are on display. Personnel attending the air show. C-54 'Skymaster' parked in hardstand. Four sets of three, training airplanes of the National Safety Force, possibly L5's and L-16's. Crowd watching the air show. Some Japanese men and children stand along edge or marked off area. Model airplane meet is held. Airplanes on display include Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star, Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw, Grumman SA-16A amphibian, Martin B-26 Marauder, Curtiss C-46 Commando, Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar, and Douglas C-124 Globemaster II. Man operates model airplane. Contestants give last minute checks to their model airplane. Personnel push model gliders out on ramp prior to launch. Written on top of the glider wing 'JA-0067'. A formation of eight F-80's airplanes fly over area. F-84 makes pass over area. A formation of three sets of four P-84's airplanes fly over the area.
U.S. Strategic Air Command B-52 crew members performing preflight checks at their stations aboard the aircraft, on the ground at Kadena Airbase, Okinawa, Japan. Navigator uses an E6-B circular slide rule computer to calculate flight parameters and checks his mission chart using a pair of compasses. Flight engineer goes through preflight checks at his panel.
Emperor Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa) and Empress Nagako (Empress Kōjun) visit the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. The Japanese national anthem, Kimigayo, plays as background music. Views of Japanese Emperor and Empress, somewhat out of sequence. Members of public, men, Women and children, wearing special tags, are assembled, and seated on the ground along a roadway outside the Yasukuni Shrine (3 chome 1-1 Kudankita, Chiyoda-ku, Toukyou-To 102-0073), in Tokyo Japan. Several uniformed guards wearing white arm bands, stand amongst them. Several uniformed motorcyclists lead a Mercedes-Benz Nurburg 770 limousine and others follow it as it passes along the road. The Japanese Imperial chrysanthemum seal is displayed on the rear door, and it appears to carry only one passenger. Chrysanthemum flags fly from wooden archway over the road. The front of a 1937 Packard automobile can be seen parked along with other cars on parallel auxiliary road. Across the road, uniformed Japanese officers stand in formation. Emperor Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa), in military uniform, descends steps of Yasukuni Shrine toward waiting automobile. A canopy over the steps displays chrysanthemum symbols and a banner with the symbol hangs from overhead. Scene shifts to gateway of the shrine, where soldiers salute and seated spectators bow as Grand (Grosser) Type 770 Mercedes-Benz limousine, bearing the Imperial Japanese chrysanthemum seal, passes under gateway arch, followed by motorcyclist escorts. The Emperor is seen seated in back seat with the Empress facing him, riding backwards. View of rooftop device on Yasukuni Shrine building. Change of scene, as Empress Nagako (Empress Kōjun), dressed all in white, descends Yasukuni Shrine steps. A streamer flies in breeze.
Camps seen at ground in Japan. An aircraft in flight. Trees in the background. An aircraft catches fire and falls on ground. Black smoke rises up. A jeep stands near it at night. Men extinguish fire by throwing water at the burning wreckage. Men stand near it. United States bomber aircraft B-29 Super fortress takes off. Men stand at a hilly terrain. U.S. aircraft B-29 aircraft in flight. (World War II period).
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