People celebrate the Shichi-Go-San (lit. "Seven-Five-Three") Festival for young children at a Shinto shrine in Japan. Parents take their children, mostly girls, to a Shinto shrine for a Shichi-Go-San ritual. Two Japanese little girls wearing kimono visit the Shinto shrine for the Shichi-Go-San Festival. A Japanese boy wearing a hakama holding his sister wearing a kimono. Japanese mother accompanies her young daughters to the shrine. Little girl takes off her Zōri sandals while her mother removes her geta sandals as they enter the shrine. Japanese Shinto priest bestows blessings to the children in attendance. Scene changes to a traditional Japanese Shinto wedding. A wedding takes place inside a Shinto shrine hall. Two Miko (Shinto shrine maidens) bowing. A Shinto priest reads from a scroll to call on Shinto spirits in front of a wedding altar. Food items in boxes are left at a ceremonial wedding altar. A Shinto priest pours sake into cups held by the two Miko. Shinto priest performs the san-san-ku-do ceremony with the couple during the wedding. Miko pours sake for the groom. Groom drinks sake during the wedding. Japanese bride receives sake from a Miko. Bride bows after drinking her sake. Japanese bride and groom sit together behind the Shinto priest.
Pan of a military compound. A Unit of cavalry, carrying the flag of Manchukuo, exits a military base. A wind sock flies in breeze at airbase. Two Japanese military biplane aircraft take off. Japanese flag flying on very high flag pole. A well-tended military building, with sand bagged sentry post at the entrance. Japanese officers on horseback observe a troop of cavalry parading loosely along a dirt street. They carry the Japanese flag. Closeup of the senior officer saluting the passing troop. A line of Japanese Type 94 tankettes moves along a dirt street. Horses being loaded on a wooden ferry for transport across a river, as a type 94 tankette enters the water and proceeds along the river. vies of the flat ferry carrying the horses. three tankettes moving along in the river. A train at station platform. Japanese soldiers and others on the platform. Sign at station reads Manchuria, in Cyrillic and Chinese. Manchukuo flag atop train station building. A beach scene, with hills across the water. A sentry on a lookout tower atop a building. Mounted Japanese cavalrymen with their officers on a hill overlooking the water.
View of Naha, the capital of Okinawa Island in Japan. Cars drive along the streets of Naha. Shop signs written in Japanese are seen on Kokusai-dori Street. Japanese pedestrians walk on Kokusai-dori. Shoppers enter the Mitsukoshi Department store. Shop signs read “Okinawa Bird Center”, “Kokusai Watch Store”, “Noritake Naha China Shop”, “Bank of the Ryukyus” and “Souvenir Stores Fuji Omiyage”. Beauty salon sign in Japanese reads “Perm Beauty Salon Moriyama”. A woman buying mandarin oranges from a fruit store. Hands open a pack of chopsticks before eating a Chinese meal (beef broccoli, fried rice and egg rolls). Women walk past Johnny’s Gift Store in Naha. A Japanese movie poster hangs outside a building. Elderly Japanese men and women walking on the street. Groups of male and female High School students cross the road. Japanese salarymen wearing sunglasses cross the road. Farmers working on the field. A mother holding her baby on the street. A man browses for sunglasses from a street vendor. A Japanese Office Lady (OL) typing on a typewriter. Fishermen with net. A mason chiseling a rock. A construction worker operating a digger. A lineman working on powerlines.
Japanese aggression in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. People in the streets of China. Animated pictures show one Chinese out of every 5 people in the world. A page showing Chinese writing. A mariners' compass. A Chinese man at an observatory. A porcelain cutlery set on a table. A Chinese man places porcelain into a furnace. A man puts gun powder in a bowl from a mortar. Explosion in the bowl. Firecrackers burst. Chinese people celebrating a festival. A book titled 'Analects of Confucius'. A saying of Confucius reads “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others”. Statues and pagodas in China. Scenes of fighting. Japanese artillery fires and cavalry advances. U.S. flag flutters beside the Chines flag. Chinese troops on horses. Animated map of China. A book titled 'The Tanaka Memorial Japan's dream of World Empire'. Japanese Foreign Minister Baron Nishi Tanaka. Excerpted line of the book. Japanese military officers. An animated map of Asia showing regions which Japan wanted to conquer. Animated map shows Germany and Russia. Animated map showing Japan and China contrasts Japanese unity with Chinese disunity. Animated map shows China breaking into pieces. A scene of the Japanese Army.
Titled 'Allied Forces land In Japan'. USS Missouri leading a convoy of 400 warships into the Bay of Tokyo. Admiral Halsey of the U.S. Navy smiles. Huge guns on the ship. A U.S. Army Air Force base at the island of Okinawa, Japan. U.S. Army Air Force plane lands at a Japanese Air Force base near Tokyo. Officers of the Japanese Air Force surrender to the officials of the Allied forces. U.S. National Flag hoisted at Tokyo Airdrome. Base operations sign there for the 3rd Airdrome Squadron. Japanese Military Police marching at Hazuki Airfield. Scenes of destroyed planes and facilities on the ground at Hazuki airfield. Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander of the fleet of Allied Forces congratulates forces on the USS Missouri. Japanese ship alongside USS San Diego. Japanese men climb into the ship and give navigation instructions to the San Diego and Task Force 31. Many sunken Japanese ships in harbor at Yokosuko. Japanese ship Nagato and crew taken into custody by the Navy and its new captain Thomas Flynn.
The Prime Minister of Japan, Hideki Tojo, addresses the nation. Firing from Japanese battleships. The stern of another Japanese battleship in the foreground. Smoke due to bombardment from the battleship. A group of Japanese Navy and Army officers. One officer reads from a piece of paper. Interior of a building. Japanese men, presumably press and media reporters, seated at a long desk and writing on papers. Hideki Tojo delivers a speech. A loudspeaker on a telephone pole. Views of men and women citizens in the streets who have stopped walking and bicycling and are listening quietly to the speech on loudspeakers. A Japanese woman bows. Three people kneel and bow in front of the Emperor's Palace. Japanese naval students walk down a street carrying banners. A map of Japan showing Japanese military movements in multiple directions across the region.