Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo declares war during World War II. Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo declares war on United States and Britain. Japanese officers seated. Prime Minister Tojo records the declaration for the radio. A Japanese officer reads out the declaration.
U.S. Task Force 38.3 in Leyte Gulf during Battle of Leyte in World War II. CVLs (Light Aircraft Carriers) and CVs (Fleet Aircraft Carrier) underway. USS Princeton (CVL-23) underway and burning. Japanese plane passes through flak. Princeton burns fiercely following attack by a Japanese Yokosuka D4Y 'Judy' Dive Bomber. The aircraft had dropped a bomb which struck the carrier between the elevators, crashing through the flight deck and hangar, and then exploding. U.S. Navy F6F Hellcat fighter parked on deck of carrier. Explosion on the after-deck of Princeton. Additional explosion on the USS Princeton. Japanese Zeke (Zero) dives on USS Langley (CVL-27), burns in flames, and crashes.
Japanese air attack on United States aircraft carrier underway in the Pacific during World War II. Men hose down deck of carrier. Japanese plane burns on flight deck of the same carrier. Men throw dead Japanese pilot over board. Men hose deck of carrier, large hole on flight deck. CVL (Light Aircraft Carrier) underway in the background.
Japanese prisoners of war carry a wounded Japanese POW on a litter into a fenced prisoner compound on Guadalcanal during World War 2. A sign at the compound reads: "Prisoners of War Camp." Japanese prisoners, all dressed in the same prisoner uniforms, march in casual formation under guard by U.S. Military police.. They leave the compound and march down a road accompanied by MPs.
Japanese war crime trials in Tokyo, Japan. U.S. Admiral James O. Richardson quotes from affidavit concerning Japanese Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's plan to attack Pearl Harbor during World War II. Admiral Richardson gives the figures on U.S. and Japanese losses at Pearl Harbor and mentions USS Arizona (BB-39).
"Kabuki-Za" Theater (specialized in Japanese traditional kabukis) in Ginza Higashi, Kyobashi-Ward (current Chuo-Ward, Tokyo, Japan. Japanese crowd arrive at "Kabuki-Za" Theater. Japanese women wearing kimono look at wall paintings (kabuki posters). In the backstage, Ichikawa Danjyuro XI (famous kabuki performer,1909-1965) is reading play scripts of today's musical program called "Kagami-zishi" and a female impersonator (Danjyuro XI) is getting ready in front of the mirror. The stage curtain rises. The audience seated. Singers with traditional kabuki band starts playing and singing kabuki music on the stage. Danjyuro XI performs a kabuki dance as a female impersonator . Kabuki perfomers (consist of only males) dressed in costumes perform dance.
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