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Japanese and Americans learn about each other during postwar occupation.

United States soldiers visit a Shinto Shrine during military occupation of Japan after WW2. A smiling Japanese woman. Two Americans enter a Japanese establishment where they attempt to follow Japanese customs, seated on the floor, sipping tea, and eating seafood with chopsticks. Japanese women look at sign advertising the movie, "Mother wore Tights" starring Betty Grable. The two Japanese women smile while viewing the sign. Scenes at U.S. Military sponsored Fair, called "Panoramic View of USA." where Japanese visitors tour smaller scale models and facsimiles of major American sites and landmarks, such as the White House, Pittsburgh "City of Steel", and famous American skyscrapers. Japanese parents and children are seen looking at Christmas displays in a local store, that includes a Santa Claus. Under the American occupation, Boy Scouts were revived in Japan. At an International Jamboree, scouts hold out a flag reading: " International Boy Scouts Troop 3, Yokohama, Japan." Japanese Boy Scouts pitch their tents and cook over campfires. American and Japanese Scoutmasters converse.

Date: 1950
Duration: 2 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024879
Army nurses treat injured soldiers while doctors perform surgery and women work in the communication department in Korea

The film 'The Big Picture' depicts the role of women in the U.S. Army in Korea. An Army nurse removes a dressing from sterilizer, with tongs, and gives it to surgeon, during operation. A team of doctors perform surgery. Physician works on soldiers. The leg of the soldiers dipped in a water tub. Nurse wipes the legs of soldier using a towel. A nurse teaches physical therapy exercises to recovering soldiers. Nurses treat soldiers in a medical van. Women work in the communication department. Woman works on typewriter. Yokohama, Japan: A quonset hut reads 'WAC Detachment Yokohama command 8064th army unit'. U.S. army women come out of the building. The local women stand. Woman arranges paper on a table. The Eiffel tower. Women work in office. Women eat on snow. A woman with a soldier as she examines a gun. A nurse helps an injured soldier. U.S. Army General Matthew Bunker Ridgway states that he is proud to have women in the army and needs many more to contribute. Captain Carl Zimmerman concludes the program.

Date: 1954
Duration: 3 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032217
Japanese surrender on board United States Navy ship Missouri in Pacific during World War 2

American sailors occupy a Japanese naval base south of Yokohama in Japan. Destroyed Japanese aircraft are seen. Japanese workers prepare for the arrival of General MacArthur. A B-29 aircraft lands and General MacArthur gets down from the plane. Surrender ceremony takes place aboard United States Navy Battleship USS Missouri (BB-63), as large number of soldiers and sailors witness it. An 11-member Japanese delegation photographed by cameramen. Japanese Foreign Minister and General MacArthur sign the surrender papers. General Wainwright also signs them. A map shows Allied zones of occupation.

Date: 1945, September 2
Duration: 6 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675037830
V-J day is celebrated by liberated Allied soldiers, freed from Japanese prison camps at end of World War 2 in the Pacific

Scenes of Allied soldiers celebrating Victory over Japan at the end of World War 2. Most scenes show liberated Allied prisoners of war as they celebrate being freed from Japanese prison camps. Many of the former POW soldiers are emaciated, starved, and thin, and show signs of abuse. Smiling liberated prisoners gather at a dock beside a prison camp compound and cheer an approaching relief boat. Letters painted atop bombed out building include "US Army Come After Us" alerting allies to the presence of their prison camp. Freed prisoners in another camp pose together, smiling and cheering. Freed prisoners pass around a flask of booze and share drinks in celebration. Views of a prison complex and prison grounds, after liberation, with U.S. Army and other Allied soldiers eating food and washing. Many are emaciated. U.S. Army officer interviews a liberated prisoner and takes notes. Two freed prisoners hold up a bat that was used to beat prisoners, among various atrocities committed by Japanese guards. A soldier holds up his burned and battered hands. His right hand is possibly also missing the thumb. Interior view of a barren prison barracks is shown, with only thin blankets on floors. An Americna soldier stacks up boxes of Red Cross supplies that had been sent to the camps for the prisoners, but which were stolen by Japanese guards. Liberated prisoners stand beside the graves of several dead soldiers. Final scene shows three Japanese former prison guards bowing before two liberated prisoners as the freed soldiers exit the Ofuna prison camp, near Yokohama, Japan.

Date: 1945, August
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058336
Japanese women in kimono, dancing and singing at a Japanese seacoast.

Film begins showing a map off Japan highlighting notable places including Mount Fuji, Tokyo Bay, cities of Tokyo, Yokohama, Shimoda, and Oshima. View from a ship in Tokyo Bay, heading toward tall island in the distance. Scene shifts to a dozen women in traditional kimona dress singing and dancing on a bluff overlooking the water. A colorful horse circles about in the background as the women dance. Next, two women dressed in traditional kimona, carry large trays on their heads. Glimpse of three farmers with a horse. Views of heavy waves and clouds at waterfront. Strong wind blowing snow off a mountain peak. A speeding steam locomotive pulling a train along the shore of Tokyo Bay. Mount Fuji in the near background.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675074739
Japanese crew of ship Terukuni Maru following rescue by British

Crew of the disaster hit ship Terukuni Maru, which had been carrying mail, cargo, and passengers on its way from Yokohama, Japan, to London, United Kingdom, when it struck a German mine near Sunderland in the North Sea, early in World War 2. Japanese crew eats food at table. British rescuers serve tea and sandwiches to crew members. British officers providing first adi to rescued crew members. Members of Japanese crew smile. Group of Japanese uniformed officials talk. British and Japanese officials in discussion. Scene changes to views of British civilians: Five men in suits talking just outside a building. Closeup views of the men. (One man looks very much like Lucien Raimbourg.) Man and woman at dining table having tea service. Three women at the table. Elderly woman talks to another woman.

Date: 1939, November 21
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Japanese
Clip: 65675024813