Japanese soldiers at control tower of Atsugi Airdrome in Japan, shortly after end of World War 2. Sign board of "Atsugi Tokyo Airdrome Base Operations 3rd Airdrome Squadron". Control building. Japanese in control tower look outside from window. Japanese soldiers around. Japanese officers talk. Japanese soldiers march. Japanese civilian talk to Japanese officer. Japanese writing on a shirt.
Japanese ground self defense force under training provided by United States and Japanese government jointly in Japan.Combined Arms School at Camp Fuji. Bayonet drill practice using wooden rifles. Firing recoiless rifles. Firing 155mm howitzers. Firing guns on Sherman tanks. Japanese mechanics repairing and maintaining 155mm howitzers. Japanese drills with semaphore flags. Japanese play volleyball at Camp Fuji. American military advisors work with general staff of Japanese self defense force in "paper war," including Command, Control and Communications exercises in the field, where. Japanese operate military communications facilities. Japanese Defense Forces in chow line and dining hall tent, during field exercises.
Film opens showing a Japanese monument commemorating officers in the Russo-Japanese War between Russia and Japan. Commander of a small contingent of Japanese troops offers saki to his soldiers, before they march off into combat. They rush into trenches and begin firing at Chinese forces. Next, Japanese infantry are seen moving across vast barren lands, as some take up defensive positions behind those advancing, who also begin digging holes and setting up defenses after their advance. Chinese artillery shells explode close ahead of them. Soldiers in the Japanese front lines throw smoke canisters and dense white smoke is carried by the wind to the left and side of their positions. As the smoke dissipates, shells burst again, right in front of the Japanese lines. Immediately, after, the Japanese troops leave their defensive positions and charge forward. View of a small battlefield cemetery with posts marking the graves of Japanese soldiers.
A Japanese graduate student studies American literature at Indiana University (INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON 107 S. Indiana Avenue Bloomington, IN 47405-7000). The Japanese student reads in his dormitory room. English literature books from writers such as Walt Whitman and Mark Twain are stacked in front on his desk. Three American students engage in an informal discussion. Japanese student tried to join conversation. American student shrugs. Japanese student sits outdoors to think. Japanese student meets his faculty advisor, an American university professor. The two men talk while walking. The American professor invites the student for dinner at his home. The professor, his family, and the Japanese student talk while they have dinner and coffee 1951. The professor’s young granddaughter eating ice cream. The professor and the Japanese student sit together for coffee. Young girl hugs the Japanese student.
United States Relocation Program by War Relocation Authority (WRA) in World War II. Japanese women work in a doll making workshop. Two Japanese women paint and enjoy in California. A Japanese man sits and feeds chickens. A Japanese boy carries eggs in a basket. Three men work in a farm. A Japanese woman works on a machine in California. A Japanese man works on a machine in potato crop. Japanese men and woman work in egg dehydrating plant. They remove egg yolk from white on a machine. Put yolk into other machine. Men work in a Candy making factory. A Japanese woman sews United States flag by a sewing machine. A boy carries trolley of packets to a truck. Boy seals packet for shipment.
Japanese occupation of Shanghai International Settlement following attack on Pearl harbor, in World War 2. Civilians are seen gathered in the Bund area Of Shanghai. Across the street are seen buildings of the International Settlement, including the British consulate and adjacent headquarters of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC). Several Japanese marines drive past the camera, in vehicles, including two Type 92 Chiyoda Armored Cars. They lead a column of open trucks filled with Imperial Marines, who wave at spectators on the sidewalks. Camera zooms in on the HSBC building entrance, where Japanese soldiers and marines climb down from a truck and deploy to the building entrance and down the street, on foot. Next, marines are seen guarding and patrolling a now empty street. Camera focuses on a large Japanese rising sun flag displayed on the now occupied HSBC building. Marines guard the entrance of the building, where a paper sign is posted announcing the occupation in Japanese. Next, another Chiyoda Armored Car is seen leading a parade of Japanese marines. View from within the marching marines as they proceed along the street. They pass a group of rickshaws and drivers at one point. Camera zooms in momentarily on the rising sun flag carried by a color guard at head of the marchers. Scene shifts to boats in the Shanghai harbor. Most are ferry boats on one kind or another. But one is the American river gunboat, USS Wake (PR-3), which was captured while docked, and now displays the Japanese flag. At end of film, Japanese narrator mentions this, and also that the British gunboat, HMS Peterel (unseen) was sunk.
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