A film titled 'Surrender in the Pacific' shows American soldiers hoisting their national flag in Tokyo to mark the surrender of Japanese troops. Soldiers march down a street in Tokyo and a bulldozer clears rubble from the streets. Japanese read occupation bulletins and bow to Emperor Hirohito. Wrecked Japanese cities are seen. Former Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo being administered an American soldier's blood at a hospital in Yokohama after he attempted a suicide. Atom bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - atom bomb explodes with smoke rising upwards.
Map depicts Yokohama and Tokyo. View of Mount Fuji from a lake near Tokyo. A steam locomotive passes by over a bridge in the distance, with Mount Fuji as backdrop. A small boat is poled forward by a standing Japanese man in the foreground, with Mount Fuji in the background. Narrator speaks in Spanish of the spiritual importance of Mount Fuji to the Japanese people.
Map shows Nagoya, Yokohama and Tokyo. Narrator in Spanish discussing Nagoya as a great industrial city. View of buildings and temples in Nagoya and a family walking toward a temple. The making of fine china is shown: Workers work at machine. China plates and jars are displayed for drying process. Potter shapes pottery on a potter's wheel. Delicate pottery is made. China plates, cups, saucer and jars displayed. The making of locomotives is shown: Workers work at machines in the train factory. Interior of the factory. Steam locomotive is prepared. Main cab of locomotive is lowered from cables onto a waiting wheel chassis for final assembly. View of a newly completed steam locomotive rolling off of the production line in Nagoya.
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.
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.
A Catholic church (Jesuit Church of Our Lady of the Assumption Hiroshima, Japan) and newly constructed houses in Hiroshima, Japan. A Catholic Jesuit priest walks from underneath a choir loft, at his side are four Japanese children. The Jesuit priest kneels in prayer. A church tower with debris in the foreground. The priest looks around the gutted interior while at his side stand the four children. A small barley field amid the ruins along the south east section of Hiroshima being tended by the owner. Newly constructed houses built on the former site of Japanese Transport Regiment Barracks which is located north of Gokoku Shrine (21-2 Motomachi, Naka Ward, Hiroshima, 730-0011, Japan) in Hiroshima.A Catholic church (Jesuit Church of Our Lady of the Assumption Hiroshima, Japan) and newly constructed houses in Hiroshima, Japan. A Catholic Jesuit priest walks from underneath a choir loft, at his side are four Japanese children. The Jesuit priest kneels in prayer. A church tower with debris in the foreground. The priest looks around the gutted interior while at his side stand the four children. A small barley field amid the ruins along the south east section of Hiroshima being tended by the owner. Newly constructed houses built on the former site of Japanese Transport Regiment Barracks which is located north of Gokoku Shrine (21-2 Motomachi, Naka Ward, Hiroshima, 730-0011, Japan) in Hiroshima.A Catholic church (Jesuit Church of Our Lady of the Assumption Hiroshima, Japan) and newly constructed houses in Hiroshima, Japan. A Catholic Jesuit priest walks from underneath a choir loft, at his side are four Japanese children. The Jesuit priest kneels in prayer. A church tower with debris in the foreground. The priest looks around the gutted interior while at his side stand the four children. A small barley field amid the ruins along the south east section of Hiroshima being tended by the owner. Newly constructed houses built on the former site of Japanese Transport Regiment Barracks which is located north of Gokoku Shrine (21-2 Motomachi, Naka Ward, Hiroshima, 730-0011, Japan) in Hiroshima.