Documentary titled, 'Barriers and Passes' on the life of Japanese-Americans living in United States during World War II. View of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California. Ships underway in harbor and Ferry Terminal of San Francisco seen. Skyscrapers, busy city streets and heavy vehicular traffic in city of San Francisco. Japanese-American children exit the Japanese Church of Christ. Three children pose with a banner reading, 'Japanese Church of Christ'. Children make handicrafts. Japanese-American students read in a library. Japanese-American men and women pose beside a movie camera. An American soldiers checks papers of a Japanese-American couple.
Aftermath of Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, United States during World War II. A column of smoke rises from a building after Japanese attack on Hawaii. Japanese aircraft in flight. People on streets of Honolulu during and after attack, responding. Smoke rises from a house after the attack. People carry their belongings out of their homes. Red Cross nurses on a lawn. Wounded victims on litters being carried for medical aid. A doctor examines a victim of Japanese air attack. Women read a newspaper account of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Damaged buildings and cars. Wreckage piled up on street. Damaged buildings. Bomb impact marks on exteriors of a building. Children at an orphanage. A woman holds a child. Damaged hangar and aircraft at Hickam airfield. A Japanese two-man mini or midget submarine, type A Ko-hyoteki-class submarine, No.19, on a Oahu beach. Men hold a rubber suit and a blanket worn by Japanese crew of the Japanese mini sub.
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.
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