Japanese Americans lower the United States flag at Poston War Relocation Center (internment camp) in Arizona, during World War II. They fold the flag carefully. Armored vehicles during a military parade consist of Japanese soldiers. Nisei (second generation Japanese American) soldiers train at military base for combat operations. Soldiers practice obstacle passing in swamps and in bog.
Japanese propaganda film during World War 2. Japanese doctors examine American or Allied prisoners of war at a prison camp of Imperial Japan. Surgeons work inside an operating room. A dentist examines the teeth of an Allied prisoner. Doctors examine the ears, faces, and chests of prisoners. A doctor examines a wounded prisoner, and the Japanese nurse gives tablets to the soldier. The patient smokes a cigarette from his hospital bed.
A big white cross monument with inscription 'Lest we forget' on edge of prison camp grounds. Soldier's line up in formation. Japanese soldiers blow buglers and serve as honor guards. Japanese official salutes to pay homage and thereafter reads out a speech from a paper in Japanese. He places a wreath at the monument and salutes followed by British and Australian officials. (World War II period).
A film titled' Yanks marry Nippon maids' shows a former American Lieutenant Frank White register his wife-to-be, a Japanese girl at United States consulate in Yokohama, Japan. John Murray of Dallas, Texas and his Japanese wife Teruko Ito register their marriage at the consulate. Nearly 175 Americans apply for permission to marry Japanese girls.
Japanese evacuees with their belongings, sit by the roadside in the United States during World War 2. Japanese children are also seen. People of Japanese descent load their belongings on to military trucks bound for relocation centers.
On December 8, 1941, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, addresses the Congress, calling for a declaration of War against Japan in World War II. He calls December 7, 1941 "a date which will live in infamy." Roosevelt notes the United States was at peace and in conversation with Japan's government and Emperor Hirohito, about maintaining peace in the Pacific. Japanese ambassador and statesmen are seen visiting State Department offices to meet with the U.S. Secretary of State. Photographers take pictures of the visiting Japanese statesmen. President Roosevelt asks Congress to affirm that a state of War exists between the United States and the Japanese Empire.
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