Fulbright Program in Japan. A Japanese man walks along a path and enters a house, likely at a University, where singers in an opera production are having a rehearsal. Men and women singing. The conductor, Dr. Jan Popper, stands up and shakes hands with the guest. Dr. Popper introduces the guest to a male singer. Singer bows to greet. Opera singers sing and act. Maestro Popper tells female singer not to bend too much. He tells his assistant to show her how to do it. He shows her how much to bend. Next scene shows the fully staged opera being performed on stage during a dress rehearsal of the opera workshop. View of several men sitting in the audience and watching.
Fulbright Program in Japan. A fountain outside a building. Name over a building. Pianist and conductor Dr. Jan Popper introduces the singer, Mrs. Popper (Elizabeth Popper, née Rankin, who was also known as Bta) to Japanese audience. He plays piano and Mrs. Popper, mezzo-soprano, sings and dances a Czech song. Audience claps. A woman and a little girl presents bouquets to the performers. They keep bouquets on piano and Mrs. Popper sings again.
Film begins showing a calm beach and Mount Fuji in Japan. Japanese women in traditional kimonos are seen strolling in orchard of cherry trees in bloom and water gardens. Geisha girls dance with fans. Peasants harvest rice by hand. Modern buildings in a city with automobiles, trams, and pedestrians dressed mostly in Western fashions. View of a large baseball stadium, filled with spectators. The baseball teams march into the stadium accompanied by a brass band. The teams assemble in formation and collectively move a rope to raise their national flag over the stadium. A nationalistic announcer speaks to the audience while flags of various kinds are held by men standing behind him. Next, players are seen during a baseball game.
Emperor Hirohito is escorted by mounted Japanese Imperial Guards to the Imperial Diet building (presently known as the National Diet building) in Tokyo, Japan. View of the Imperial Diet building (1 Chome-7-1 Nagatachō, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-0014, Japan). The carriage carrying Emperor Hirohito arrives in the Imperial Diet. View of the Central Hall of the House of Councilors. View of the public gallery above the back end of the House of Councilors. Camera pans to the seats at the House of the Councilors. View of the golden throne for the Emperor of Japan at the public gallery. A Japanese official speaks at the ceremony. Japanese journalists working on their desks. Workers working in printing press. Newspapers being printed on a press. Various Japanese newspapers and magazines on display.
Industrial expansion of Japan with the help of America, after the end of World War 2. Food supply through sea in Japan. Oarsmen row wooden fishing boats. Mountains in the background. Japanese fishermen cast their nets. America helps Japan in industrial expansion. Japanese silk mill and textile industry. Japanese shipyard and ship building activity. Japanese production of automobiles and railroad train cars. Exterior view of Dai-Ichi Seimei Building (1 Chome-13-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-0006, Japan) which served as Supreme Commander Allied Powers (SCAP) headquarters (also called GHQ Building) in Tokyo Japan. American flags and United Nations flags seen flying at the building. Ships of U.S. Army preparing to transport U.S. troops from Japan for combat in Korea as Korean War starts. U.S. Army troops marshaled at Army Port of Sasebo, Japan, with their belongings.
Japan after World War II. A view of Kure, Hiroshima, Japan after the war. Japanese women pulling ropes to move gold caches. Men pulling out baskets of cache from an underground hideout. A woman writing notes on site. Men retrieve cache of coins. Japanese government gold, silver and platinum are removed from the caches. The soldiers take out baskets filled with coins. The collected treasure is taken away from the caches by the soldiers on a military tank. Japanese civilians watch the treasures being taken. A view of the Kure Harbor in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Hulks of wrecked Japanese ships at the harbor. Many wrecked ships in the harbor are seen.
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