Newly elected members of National Assembly of Japan in a meeting. Members of the House of Representatives wear a button on their collars. Ancient assembly Diet in session. Japanese in a procession to mark the new civil rights celebrations. A judicial trial at a court room is seen. Disestablishment of Shinto religion and people of different religions pray at their places of worship. Japanese children being taught in classroom under a new democratic educational system. Free press in the country, newspapers being printed and sold.
The chief of communicable disease along with other officers works on a plan to control the spread of typhoid in Japan. DDT disinfectant being sprayed in a house and a patient being carried to hospital. Doctor explains the importance of public health to people on street. Japanese stand in queue to be sprayed with DDT powder. People line up to get rationed food under public distribution system. Japanese women shop for clothes. Reconstruction work in progress at factories and a church.
Women's Army Corps officers drive in a hand driven rickshaw being pulled by Japanese men in Tokyo in Japan. Four WAC officers walk up the steps in Ueno Park. Two officers are seen with a Japanese girl wearing a Kimono. They look at pottery in the window of a store and visit the National Museum.
A film titled 'For Valor- American Japanese soldiers win combat citations' shows General Mark Clark presenting citations to United States 100th Infantry Battalion soldiers of Japanese descent also known as Nisei, with citations for their services in Italy during World War II. General Clark attaches citation to battle colors in Italy.
An American soldier named Gene Kneebone from Grass Valley City, California being interviewed in Manila, Philippines. Kneebone recounts his experience as prisoner by Japanese forces in World War II during the interview. He states how he was beaten up at military police headquarters after two of his friends escaped from the Japanese prison camp.
Margaret Moule, the wife of William Moule, is seen along with her three children, Billy, Eileen, and Linda, late in World War 2. She describes how they hid from the Japanese in 1942, but were captured by the Japanese in 1943 and lived in a concentration camp in Manila, Philippines.
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