Flag of the Soviet-administered Chinese Eastern Railway, flying over the Harbin train station in Manckukuo. (It contains Manchukuo canton and small hammer, sickle, and star on the field.) Many cars waiting outside the station building. Overview of the city. Saint. Sofia Cathedral of Harbin seen clearly. Shoppers and pedestrians walking on crowded sidewalk under many electric power wires strung overhead. Japanese flag displayed at corner shop. Various ethnic peoples seen on sidewalks. Kitayskaya Street (China Street) lined with buildings and stores. Patrons seated on veranda of a restaurant overlooking the Songhua River. Boats on the river and bridge in far background. Closeup showing that some are houseboats in the river. Western persons in bathing attire on a sandy beach at the river. (No other ethnic groups are represented.) Sun sparkling on the water. Two Western men row a boat with a woman in the back seat. A couple of small day-sailor boats are seen under sail. View of railroad bridge over the Songhua River. A sidewheeler boat flying the Japanese Rising Sun Naval Ensign flag.
A Japanse girl blows a whistle and a number of children run along a beach. Japanese children dressed in their uniforms carry a school bag as they move to school. Children play in the school ground. Principal conducts a staff meeting where he complaints about the behavior of a student.. A cleaner puts forward his point of view followed by a female and a male teacher,while one of the faculty members continue to doze through out meeting.Japanese schools are not well equipped and therefore the educational system has certain loopholes.As the meeting concludes teachers leave for their respective classrooms.One of the male teachers finds that students have drawn his sketch on the blackboard.
Japanese films show school activities to explain the school system and its deficiencies. The films emphasize the role of schools in developing nationalism, Japan. A school program for parents: Two girls play musical numbers on koto (2nd popular musical instrument in Japan) in a program. Young Japanese perform play to entertain the audience of parents. Audience gives huge round of applause. Banzai cheers on stage. Teacher is in black uniform and students are in native kimonos. Teacher teaches students to rock the babies when they cry. Students are told to bring infants or their young brother and sister to learn care of baby. Students learn to make babies sleep and take care of them. Babies are rocked to sleep in a poor school.
Japanese films show school activities to explain the school system and its deficiencies. The films emphasize the school's role in developing nationalism, Japan. In outdoor class, Japanese students make and shape pottery roughly. They apply the color on pottery. Students learn to bake pottery in oven under guidance of teacher. Teacher puts the pottery out from oven. After drying process, pottery is painted and decorated. Students draw nature sketch in outdoor class. Teachers give instruction to sketch natural objects like flowers, leaves, bamboo and cherry blossom. Students learn to draw Snow capped mountains.
Japanese films show school activities to explain the school system and its deficiencies. The films emphasize the school's role in developing nationalism in Japan. In education program for regulating health of Japanese youth every pupil is examined for strong and steady physic. Children stand in queue outside the clinic. Children are examined physically. Doctor and nurse check eyesight of children by letter board. Doctor checks teeth of child. Children are examined for good physic. Children are in queue for routine examination. Children take treatment of trachoma (an infectious eye disease) and handicapped are examined which are particularly exist among the lower grade people. Children put on clothes after examination.
An itinerant Japanese toy seller sells toys and candies to children in a rural village, Japan. Toy seller cycles to a rural village. The traveling toy seller begins to play drums and trumpet to attract children and mothers. A child plays with a toy gun from the toy seller. Toy seller sells lollipop to a child. Japanese child eating lollipop. April 1934.
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