Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi being greeted by UN Secretary Dag Hammarskjöld in New York, United States. The two dignitaries talk to each other. Little flags of UN member states are displayed behind Hammarskjöld. The Empire State Building and other New York City buildings are seen. Flags of various countries including that of Japan are seen flying in the breeze on flag poles in front of the UN building. Dignitaries arrive in a Cadillac limousine and exit the car. Prime Minister Kishi enters the United Nations Secretariat Building (760 United Nations Plaza, Manhattan, New York City, (10017-6818) United States) where he looks at a miniature irimoya roof structure.
A newsreel titled "Jap atomic equipment destroyed" shows United States occupation troops looking at Japanese atomic research equipment in Japan a few months after the end of World War II. U.S. Army officers and soldiers tour the Nishina Laboratory of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, better known as the RIKEN Research Institute, at Komagome, in Tokyo, Japan. Laboratory director Dr. Yoshio Nishina is seen in the lab with the American forces. American soldiers are seen dismantling, destroying, and disposing of the the atom smasher cyclotron equipment. Occupation troops in an outdoor field rig demolition charges to some of the equipment and blow it up.
An American soldier looks through a telescope from behind sandbag mounds in Bougainvilie Solomon Island during World War II. Shells being fired at Japanese positions. Shells explode in wooded area causing fire and smoke. A soldier speaks over a handie talkie as shelling continues.
A United states destroyer in harbor shells at Japanese positions in Bougainvilie Solomon Island during World War II. Barbed wire barricades on the islands. A soldier looks through binoculars and speaks over a handie talkie to an officer of 132nd Infantry. The officer speaks over a field phone from behind a sandbag mound.
Interview with Doreen Garwick, wife of United States Navy officer Warren Garwick from Los Angeles, California. Garwick recounts her experience taken as a prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II in Manila, Philippines. During the interview she hopes of meeting her husband soon after the liberation of Manila.
Churchill Scott of Richmond, Virginia holds his son Richard during an interview with United States Army forces. Mr. Scott states how his son Richard was born in a Japanese concentration camp in Baguio, Philippines during World War II.
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