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Cadets training at the Imperial Japanese Military Academy in Tokyo. Students demonstrate Kendo martial art at a Military school in Kobe, Japan

Opening scene shows cadets at the Imperial Japanese Military Academy in Tokyo, practicing Kendo martial art using bamboo swords (shinai) and wearing protective armor (bōgu). Next the cadets run an obstacle course. We see them leaping over a wall and then running over wooden poles across a deep open pit. They then leap another wall and climb out of a deep ditch and over a stone wall to the top. Next, students are seen demonstrating kendo in a courtyard at the a Military School in Kobe, Japan. Many spectators watch the demonstration.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051154
Two Japanese young women demonstrate the ancient martial art of Naginata in Kyoto, Japan

Two young women demonstrate the basic elements of the ancient martial art of Naginata using wooden weapons. They assume various classic stances and movements in unison. After the series of actions, they pose for closeups.

Date: 1946, January 8
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060732
Chinese youth join the Army as Japan advances further in land and isolates China; Colonel Chennault and Flying Tigers.

Japanese invasion of China. Chinese soldiers blow the trumpet. Young men march in a field. Young men register in the Army. Millions of young people answer the call to fight for China. Volunteers from south, north, east and west China to form the people's army. Men and women with their children leave to join the forces. Drumming sound. New recruits train and perform a drill to drum beats. Soldiers practice martial arts, rifle handling, and shooting. Others train to care for the sick and wounded. Women soldiers in uniform. They learn to fire a gun. Pilots crowd around an officer. Planes in the background. Men from other countries prepare to fight for China. U.S. Colonel Claire Chennault of the American Volunteer Group Flying Tigers, talks to his men. The Curtiss P-40 Warhawks with the shark face emblems take off. Chinese soldiers march. Japan: Japanese officials in a meeting. Japanese troops penetrate China along the rivers. They rebuild destroyed rail roads using slave labor. A map depicts the Japanese strategy of cutting off Chinese supply lines. Japanese warships blockade the coast with the aim to isolate China. Japanese occupied ports in China. Japanese warships and boats in a Chinese port. Gas plants, gun factories and planes. Indochina map: The narrow gauge railway from sea to Kunming and a truck road to Chungking. The camel trail from Russia across the Gobi Desert. The railroad from Rangoon to Lashio in Burma. (World War II period).

Date: 1941
Duration: 4 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033616
Children play and adults work in rice fields during spring time in Japan

Kendo martial arts match between two Japanese boys. The boys engage in Kendo with Shinai sticks while wearing protective masks and Kendo armor (known and bougu). Children play and swim in the warm sunlight. Japanese children swimming. A Japanese grandmother holding an infant. A farmer planting rice in rice field. A group of children follow cinematographer Fred C. Ells. Rural Japanese boy carries a traditional Japanese umbrella April 1934.

Date: 1934, April
Duration: 2 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025118
The Sergeant Martin Difrancisco teaches Judo and demonstrate his skill with the Japanese sword, in Washington, United States.

U.S. Air Force Sergeant Martin Difrancisco teaches martial arts to young boys and girls near Spokane, Washington, United States. Sergeant Martin Difrancisco teaches Judo to children of Air Force personnel at the Fairchild Air Force Base. Young boys practice judo and others watch while sitting. Young girls seated and practicing judo. He demonstrates karate skills, breaking wooden boards with his hand. He demonstrates control of a Japanese Samurai sword, using it to cut a carrot positioned on the stomach of his assistant, and then on the neck of his assistant, without harming his assistant. People stand and watch his demonstration.

Date: 1960
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067043
Conventioneers demonstrate martial arts in National Academy Convention in Palo Alto, California.

National Academy Convention held in Palo Alto, California. Activities include a demonstration of martial arts. Two men wear martial arts uniform and fight with each other using martial arts techniques. Other conventioneers stand in a group in the background.

Date: 1951
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675053600