Japanese air attacks over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii during World War II. A relief map shows Japan, China, the U.S. and the Philippine Islands. An arrow on the relief map point from Japan to the Hawaiian Islands. Two Japanese aircraft carriers underway in the Pacific Ocean. A section of the deck of a Japanese ship. Anti-aircraft guns on the side of the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. Two Japanese officers conversing. Sailors in the background. Japanese pilots being orientated by a Japanese officer. A group of Japanese pilots around the officer. Japanese Navy Nakajima B5N 'Kates' aircraft engines are warming up. The pilots stand in a semi-circle around a senior officer. The sailors remove chucks from under the wheels of 'Kates'. A sailor waves a white flag. Japanese Navy Aichi D3A 'Vals' aircraft take off in formation. An aerial formation of the 'Vals'. A flag fluttering on the mast of a Japanese ship. Clouds in the sky. An aerial formation of 'Kates'. Japanese insignia on a Japanese plane. Airplanes in flight over Wheeler Army Airfield in Hawaii. Bombs explode on a runway of the airfield. Smoke rises from a hangar and the runway. Smoke rises from the docks at Pearl Harbor due to bombardment by the Japanese airplanes. Several Japanese destroyers underway.
Japanese propaganda during the Sino-Japanese War. The Japanese Rising Sun Flag on a ship sailing in the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China. Warships sail in the Huangpu River. Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) Soldiers unload supplies and provisions from ships. Soldiers climb down ship gang plank. A crane lowers a bucking horse onto the dock. Japanese soldiers approach a horse on the dock. A Sumida M.2593 (Type 91) armored car being lowered from a ship. Japanese troops disembark in Shanghai. Soldiers feed a horse. A Japanese soldier with bayonet rifle on guard. Japanese soldiers distribute rice to Chinese children. Chinese civilians with Japanese soldiers. A Japanese soldier giving candies to children. Chinese boys holding baskets. A Japanese soldier lights a cigarette for an Chinese woman. Japanese soldier stands at edge of field. Chinese farmers harvest in fields. A girl with braided pigtails carries a basket of vegetables. A farmer wearing a Japanese red sun symbol on his sleeve threshes hay in the countryside. Japanese soldier offers flowers to a memorial for dead Chinese soldiers.
Explosion from bombing during the Marco Polo Bridge Incident at the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Sign at Marco Polo Bridge reads “Lu Know Kiao”. A train station near Marco Polo Bridge in Fengtai District, Peking, China. Imperial Japanese Army soldier uses binoculars while hiding in trench. A Japanese Sumida M.2593 (Type 91) armored car. Japanese troops fighting around Marco Polo bridge. The Japanese flag on mast of a battleship. Japanese battleship sailing to China. Japanese troops enter Nanking (Nanjing) after the Battle of Nanking. Soldiers in back of truck. Japanese biplane aircraft in flight. Japanese planes drop propaganda leaflets over Shanghai. Japanese planes dropping bombs. A Japanese newspaper with news on the Second Sino-Japanese War. Naval artillery crew firing guns. Japanese warships firing their guns in China. Japanese soldiers advance in battle. More bombers in flight.
Scenes of Second Sino-Japanese War, circa 1938. Japanese soldiers observing battlefield from a ridge. Japanese artillerymen firing field pieces. Flight of two Mitsubishi Ki-15-1 light bombers in formation, later called "Babs" by the Allies and known as a C5M in Japanese Navy usage. Aerial view of Japanese bombs falling on Chinese cities. Chinese citizens, including an injured woman, seeking shelter from bombing. Aerial view of Chinese ship being strafed by Japanese aircraft. The ship explodes. Downed Japanese warplanes burning. Scenes of destruction from bombing of oil facilities. Iron ore being moved in Japanese rail cars. Steel plants around Yawata, Japan. Numerous containers of molten steel inside a steel plant. Hot Steel ingots being moved. Animated map shows locations of iron ore deposits in Japan. Scrap steel being imported that, narrator states, helped boost Japanese wartime production to 12 million ingot tons in the Sino-Japanese war. More views of open rail cars moving alloying elements to a steel mill. Open mining using explosives. Mining operations for copper and bauxite (aluminum ore). Japanese miners shoveling ore by hand into open rail cars. Open rail cars moving in both directions on parallel tracks. (Note: Although some narration refers to 1941 Japanese production, the images are from earlier period.)
A documentary film depicts psychology and living habits of Japanese people during World War 2. Japanese men work in factories and operate machinery. A Japanese supervisor guides an employee before work in the factory. Both wear kokumin-fuku worker uniforms. A young Japanese man sweats while operating a machine. Japanese men welding armored cars in a war production arms factory. Indoctrination of Japanese children. A Japanese woman takes a young baby in her lap. A Japanese baby is fed from a small saucer. A baby is put to sleep on a small futon. A young Japanese woman with a child stands in front of the flowers. Japanese boys engage in rough play outdoors. A woman sings a lullaby as the baby sleeps in the cradle. Young Japanese boys sit with their family for dinner and are trained to sit traditionally. Japanese wife pours sake for her husband.
Japanese people and Japanese Americans in the United States before the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II. Two actors talk about Japanese and American population. The chairman of Oahu Citizens Committee for Home Defense speaks about the loyalty of the Japanese American towards the United States. Japanese children sing American loyalty songs in schools. A Japanese girl stands. A Japanese boy salutes. The two actors talk about Japanese children going to the American schools as well as to the Japanese schools. A Japanese school in the U.S. A teacher teaches the students in a class. Japanese children sing in Japanese.
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