A Boeing B-29 Superfortress of the United States 11th Airborne division (a four-engine heavy bomber propeller aircraft) flies over Tokyo Bay. The bomber is seen from a distance. Various U.S. Navy ships in the bay present for occupation of Japan at end of World War II. United States Light Cruiser USS San Diego CL-53 among them.
Major nuclear testing events of the year 1952. Narrator indicates that the British detonated their first atomic bomb in 1952 (not shown). Aerial view of Enewetak Atoll area where United States testing took place for Operation Ivy. America tests its first hydrogen bomb. View of bomb apparatus on island. Massive explosion occurs during test shot Ivy MIKE, at the Enewetak atoll, on November 1, 1952.
A United States 11th Airborne division, B-29 Superfortress, a four engine heavy bomber propeller aircraft, flies overhead, over Tokyo bay. Various landing craft in bay heading toward shore. The Allied occupation of Japan begins. United States Navy and the U.S. Army 11th Airborne Division land in the country. (World War II period).
Activities of Japanese people in Japan. Japanese and United States scientists work at a laboratory. A Japanese girl mixes chemicals in a test tube. A man looks through a microscope. Technician takes water and pours it in a beaker for examination of malaria, typhoid and plague parasites. Men spray insecticide in water, swamp and drainage besides road. Farmers work in farm. Men dig in field, one man pulls rodent out of hole in the ground and places it in box. Inspector examines cows and milking process. He inspects milk cans and meat in butcher's refrigerator.
Activities of Japanese people in Japan. People go in Public Health Clinic. Women sit in line at clinic. Nurse places thermometer in a woman's mouth. A lady doctor examines a boy with stethoscope. Boys receive chest X-Rays. Little children weighed in baskets by nurses. Dentist examines little girl's teeth. Teacher lectures at a Nursing class and nurses under training take notes. Nurses check patients' blood pressure. Nurse brings tray of food to woman on bed. Farms on hill side. Men and women plow farms. Water besides the farm. United States freighter at port. Fertilizer sacks are lowered down to port. Farmers spread fertilizers in a farm. They use their feet to mix fertilizer with soil. Horse drawn thrasher in the farm. Men and women sow rice plants in water filled paddies. Laborers dig new hilly land for re plantation. Farmers trained in farming school for practical work. They plow and spray chemical.
Activities of Japanese people in Japan. An old Japanese man reads Japanese newspaper. Poster on lamp post about land possession. People at polling booth. They cast their votes in the booth and put ballet papers in box. Surveyors work on land for dividing it. They measure land. A man goes to an office and receives papers. Farmers pull out radishes from farm and make pile after washing. Women cut cabbages from farms. Farmers cut wheat crops, make bundles of it and load it onto carts. Men and women work on thrasher. Water filled rice paddies. Boats in sea. Men go to sea for fishing. They pull up net full of fishes. Boats and fishes at sea shore. Men shows tokens to an official, he collects it. People go to cooperative homes at night. They gather there to talk and discuss about their problems and share their views. Men on a boat in sea.