Japanese films show school activities to explain the school system and its deficiencies. The films emphasize the school's role to develop nationalism in Japan. A class in agriculture: Children learn correct methods of tilling soil. Teacher imparts the knowledge practically. Children seated in boat learn shipping. They cross the wooden bridge with farm tools and work in rice patties. Cameraman takes motion pictures. Children learn to take motion pictures. Children dig the soil and cut the crops by using farm tools. They make hay stack of rice straws and use it for making sandals. They use both hands and toes for this operation. Girls put hay stacks at one place.
A look at various sources of energy in Japan prior to World War 2. Japanese coal miners ride railcars down into a mine. View of miner using pneumatic drill to cut away coal at the face. Steam shovel bucket loading bituminous coal into open rail car. Animated map showing locations of Japan's coal mining areas in Kyushu and Hokkaido and small deposits in Honshu. Scene shifts to a river and water power generation site. View of turbines in water-powered electric generating plant. Generator buildings at side of river. Electric power transmission facilities. View from below a dam of a hydroelectric plant in central Honshu. Pipes carrying water down a mountainside. Reservoirs for storing water. Animated map depicting meager oil deposits in Japan and showing some of its oil processing and storage facilities.
'Tambo Rice Fields: A Springtime Ramble in Rural Japan' shows rural family in Japan work in rice paddy. Sakura cherry blossom trees in full bloom. White rabbits chewing on grass. A kid nurses from goat. Water flows from waterfall. A water snake moves in the water. Farmers hoeing muddy soil. Farmers prepare water dikes to make rice paddies. A man uses a scythe to form a mud wall of the dike. A female farmer preparing the water dike. A baby cries near the rice paddy. The mother picks the baby from the small box. Mother breastfeeds the baby. The baby looks to the camera while nursing from her mother. Japanese woman smiles while holding her baby. Water is logged into the rice field. Woman spreads rice seeds. The family prepare rice seedbeds at start of springtime in Japan. April 1934.
A farmer works in a rice paddy in Japan. Farmer thin out rice seedlings in seedling bed. The farmer is wearing a hachimaki headband with geometric pattern. Another farmer spreading fertilizer on the seedlings. The farmer smokes with a Kiseru, a traditional Japanese smoking pipe. April 1934.
Silkworm cultivation in Japan. Workers gather and cut mulberry leaves in the foothills. Man cuts a bunch of mulberry stems. The workers take mulberry leaves to a village. A Japanese woman feeding silkworms with mulberry leaves. Closer view of silkworms feeding on mulberry leaves. Hand picking silkworms from leaves. Hand holding silkworms. April 1934.
Sewage treatment in Japan. Sewage consisting of human waste is brought from Japanese cities in carts to remote villages. Oxcarts carry barrels containing human waste. Farmers process raw sewage. Raw sewage is spread out in the field before it is compacted and treated with powder. A young child slips and falls into the edge of the sewage treatment pool and is rescued by a slightly older boy, who escorts the crying child in soiled clothing away from the pit. A man wears strapped-on long boards to mash the waste which is eventually to be used for farm fertilizer.
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