Japanese women greet each other outside a house in Kyoto, Japan. Two Japanese women in kimonos walking down a street are met by another woman who is outside a house doorway. Japanese women greet one another by bowing low and backing. The older woman introduces the younger one to the third woman. The third woman bows and accepts the introduction. The three women enter the house.
Japanese people in front of the gates of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan to bid the Shōwa Emperor a Happy New Year. The front of the Palace Gate shows Japanese people bowing. Dai-Ichi Building (Dn Tower 21, 1 Chome-13-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-0006, Japan) in the background. A Japanese family bows in union. Before they bow, coats and hats are removed and laid under the arm. A family of two children and their parents line up and bow. The children are dressed in kimonos. Several girls line up and bow. Three girls walk along a road. A family comprising of a mother, two small children and a boy in a student's clothes take off their coats and bow together. Two women pray and bow. Grounds of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan.
Citizens and United States soldiers walk along the streets in Tokyo, Japan on New Year Day (Oshōgatsu) of 1946. Japanese women and children dressed in kimonos walk along a sidewalk. Some Japanese men and women are also seen wearing face masks. They are wearing face masks during winter influenza season. A woman wearing a surgical mask and fur coat glances at the camera as she walks by. Japanese women and children walking along the streets.
Japanese school children walking in a group. A steam ship with Clipper bow and extensive rigging, underway. Ensign on stern shows emblem with a cross in canton. Japanese warship, displaying the Sunburst ensign, underway followed by several small boats. A three-masted sailing vessel, in distance, with no sails showing. Japanese houses along a canal.
A film dramatizes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii during World War II. A Pvt. (Private) soldier operates the controls on a panel at an aircraft warning station at Pearl Harbor. He calls up an information center and informs a U.S. Army Lieutenant that he has detected a line of unidentified aircraft approaching the island of Oahu. The Aloha Tower in Honolulu. Airmen around U.S. aircraft parked at a U.S. air base look at formations of Japanese aircraft in the sky. Exterior of a building in Washington DC. A door sign reads 'Secretary of State'. Formation of Japanese aircraft over clouds and island of Oahu. The aircraft over Waikiki Beach. They drop first load of bombs at Hickam Field which borders Pearl Harbor. Air base installations at Hickam Field burn.
A Japanese Navy Minikaze class Destroyer departing from port to patrol in the Sea of Okhotsk. Japanese sailors dressed in rain gear wave from a pier. Closeup of the destroyer passing, with crew on deck, showing details clearly up to amidship. View from ship passing fairly makeship civilian waterfront of wood buildings, docks, and a small boat. Several Japanese flags are seen. The destroyer seen, again, passing the camera rapidly, turning to port, and steaming underway. View, from behind helmsman, on the bridge of the destroyer. Officers looking ahead through the bridge window. Officer issues steering orders to the helmsman who responds by turning the wheel. Sunlight glaring on the water. view of passing coastline and sea birds in flight. Silhouettes of crew member looking through telescopes and officer using binoculars. The destroyer approaches an oiler they tie up and and sailors dressed in overalls, connect a fuel line from one to the other. Officer steps from one ship to the other. View from the destroyer toward forward portside of the oiler. Lines between the ships visible. Officers and crew of the destroyer looking down as the two ships complete refueling and prepare to separate.
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