Japanese care for wounded soldiers during their invasion of Manchuria . A Fokker Super Universal aircraft lands in a valley. Japanese soldiers carry wounded to the airplane. One is carried on the back of a soldier. Others are on stretchers. Inserted shot of a Kawasaki KDA-2 (Type 88 reconnaissance bomber) with engine running. More wounded being placed aboard a Fokker Super Universal. The monoplane taking off. Another KDA-2 biplane flying overhead. Wounded being placed aboard ambulances and view of several driving slowly down dirt embankment. A wounded soldier being carried on a litter into a field hospital tent. View of medical staff treating the wounded. Soldiers carrying a comrade with a bandaged leg, into a tent.
Japanese children pray and bow their heads to the national flag.The totalitarian government infuses state shintoism in young children and it often blends religion with nationalism.This is done in order to destroy free thought and individuality among young Japanese.Minimum of six years of schooling is compulsory in Japan and all schools are under municipal control.Children draw and paint a picture of a bird and are taught to admire a cherry blossom tree.Fifth grade students read from their text books in a reading period.These government approved textbooks are poor in quality.
Teacher draws Japanese characters on the blackboard in a class and Students learn to paint these characters with a black ink and a paint brush.In the first six years of school education, in Japan, mastering Japanese word characters is elementary requirement.Learning these characters is a difficult task therefore teacher instructs and helps the students as they paint the characters.
Japanese films show school activities to explain the school system and deficiencies are noted by narrator. The films emphasize the school's role to develop nationalism in Japan. Lunch time: Children wash their hands and come out from the building to take lunch. Children served vegetables and fish in food. Emphasis on physical culture by calisthenics and gymnastics: Children run for exercise. Children do physical exercise. Children learn the correct methods of formal exercise. Children are taught to exercise for strong and good health, which is necessary for soldier. Children do calisthenics under trained teacher. Children do gymnastic to build body and make formation. Boys doing calisthenics. (World War II period; anti-Japanese propaganda).
Two Japanese university students talk to each other. One student is dressed in traditional Japanese dress kimono the other wears a university uniform. The kimono dressed student studies in a room while other one sits in balcony.1945.
View of a typical Japanese tea garden. Women pick tea leaves (known as O Cha in Japanese). Baskets of tea leaves are seen behind the women. A young child accompanies the tea pickers. Closer view of a woman picking tea leaves from the shrubs. April 1934.
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