Psychology and living habits of Japanese people. Religious ceremonies and customs in Japan. Japanese people visit the religious place. They wash hands and face. The Japanese ring a bell or clap to gain God's attention. A woman with a child prays to God. A father eats dinner with his son in a Japanese home. The Japanese boy lays food offering in memory of his dead mother and then eats his rice. Japanese men and women take bath in a Japanese community bath.
Japanese elementary school children walk to school in groups, during World War 2. Japanese boys and girls are wearing uniforms and standard Randoseru schoolbags. Japanese children bow down to a shrine containing a picture of the Shōwa Emperor before going to school. Japanese students perform mass radio calisthenics as an instructor drills them instructions over public NHK radio. Radio calisthenics broadcast played on loudspeaker. Young children performing radio calisthenics. A teacher writes on the blackboard teaching basic Chinese characters (Kanji) used in Japanese to students. Students follow by pointing with their fingers as the teacher demonstrates the proper stroke order of the Kanji character. Japanese students learn to write a basic Chinese character using calligraphy pens. Teachers watch over students writing Japanese calligraphy. A student bows as he submits his seat work to a teacher.
Japanese warship placing mines, during World War 2. Japanese marines board boats lowered from a ship and begin rowing them. Bombs dropped from U.S. aircraft burst in water near Japanese ships and near the Japanese marines in the boats. Japanese machine gunners on a ship fire at American aircraft in flight overhead. A U.S. Martin PBM Mariner flying boat, at extremely low altitude, launches a torpedo and climbs sharply over its intended target (Japanese warship). American warplanes flying overhead. Crew on Japanese ship drop buoys marking locations of mines.
Japanese leader, Hideki Tojo addresses members of the legislature (Diet) saying their task is to set the Emperor's mind at ease. View of vast field full of Japanese soldiers performing supervised calisthenics. A kitchen preparing meals in boxes for Japanese soldiers. Soldiers hanging, one arm at a time, from a horizontal bar in a gymnasium. Radio antennas and smoke stacks are seen in Japanese industrial sites. Factory workers, all dressed alike, enter a war plant in Japan. Scientists seeking to invent new weapons of war. Japanese men and women workers in war production factories producing ammunition. Workers assembling artillery in a factory. Others building a new ship in a shipyard. Japanese boys and girls in school uniforms working on a farm. Women carrying harvested crop suspended from poles. Others threshing harvested grain and working in fields. Men and women operating Japanese fishing boats and hauling nets filled with their catches.
A Japanese submarine in a German harbor on September 30, 1942 during World War II. A German ship in the foreground and the Japanese submarine in the background. Nazi naval officers lined up on the deck of the ship as they salute the Japanese crew on the deck of the submarine. Nazi officers come aboard the submarine and review the Japanese crew. German and Japanese officers pose. A girl presents flowers to a Japanese officer. Japanese officers talk to a German Naval officer.
Surrender of Japanese Sen Toku I-400-class submarines, in the Pacific Ocean at the end of World War II. A U.S. Navy sailor knocks out anchor chain which goes over the side as anchor is being dropped aboard a ship. Japanese submarine I-400 (boat 5231) underway at sea as seen from an approaching tender. The United States flag flies over Japanese flag. The bow of the Japanese submarine with the catapult launching device for aircraft. Japanese crew gathered on the deck of the submarine. The United States and Japanese officers on the conning tower look down at the Japanese crew. The U.S. flag and the black surrender flag on the flag staff aboard the submarine.
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