Japanese medics conduct check ups on patients in a bombed out building of Nagasaki, Japan, three months after atomic bombing and end of World War 2. Interior of the bombed out building. Injured Japanese on beds. A Japanese man prepares to cook food over wood fire. Japanese medics conduct check ups on a Japanese man inside the bombed out building.
View of Mount Fuji framed by tree branches. A collection of Japanese Army in action in China during the Sino-Japanese War. Men's chorus sings their respective songs in soundtrack. Japanese troops departing by a train. Japanese flags waved from the departing train and from spectators. Japanese soldiers march along a street, including several with canines. The troops on a horse drawn wagons. An artillery shell explosion billows up smoke. Buglers sound charge and the soldiers advance on a field. They fire artillery and machine guns. The troops on horse-drawn wagons advance. Tanks advance. Artillery guns being fired. Buildings being attacked. Explosions on the field.
Japanese soldiers in Kiukiang (Jiujiang), Jiangxi, China during the second Sino-Japanese war. They stage mock war exercises. Soldiers fire rifles and machine guns from a trench. The soldiers come down a hill. The quarters of General Shunroku Hata, Commander-in-Chief of Expeditionary Forces in Central China. General Hata talks with General Hamada, Staff Officer of the Press and Propaganda Section. Exterior of the gateway to General Hata's quarters. Japanese Consul Komori and Japanese citizens of Kiukiang gather at Consul's residence to pay respect to the Yasukuni Shrine (3 Chome-1-1 Kudankita, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 102-0073, Japan) in Tokyo. They bow towards the location of the Imperial Palace, in Tokyo, where the Japanese emperor is "supposedly" bowing.
Animated map shows the Japan Sea. Military Police at the Omori Prisoner of War Camp after Japanese surrender in World War II. Views of Japanese war criminals in Omori Prisoner of War Camp. Among those seen are Hideki Tojo, Colonel Hashimoto, General Koki Hirota, General Kuroda, General Homma, and others. They are seen eating inside the prison. But Tojo is shunned by the others (because of his blundered suicide attempt) and eats alone. Hideki Tojo eating alone in prison cafeteria. United States soldiers hunt for valuable Japanese treasure in a Japanese barnyard. They find bricks of silver in an underground sealed room. Valuable metal worth millions of dollars are found from defeated Japanese. A pile of silver bricks.
Japanese officials arrive to coordinate arrangements for a formal Japanese surrender, at a Conference in Manila, Philippine Islands. Headed by Lt. Gen. Torashiro Kawabe, Vice-Chief of the Army General Staff, the sixteen-member Japanese delegation descends steps from U.S. Army Air Forces C-54 transport Aircraft, tail number 44-9045, at Nichols Field, near Manila. General Kawabe salutes American Colonel Mashbir, coordinator of the Allied translator and interrogator Section. Major General Charles Willoughby, Director of Intelligence, leads them to waiting cars. Meeting in the City Hall in Manila, the Japanese officers surrender their personal swords and present documents delegating them powers Plenipotentiary by the Japanese Government. They file into a conference room, where they and American counterparts take their places across a long, black table. U.S. Army Lieutenant General Richard Kerens Sutherland, General MacArthur's Chief of Staff, presides over the discussions, accompanied by Major General S. J. Chamberlin, General MacArthur's Operations Officer. They are supported by Allied translators and interpreters. The conference is concluded successfully and sets the stage for the final formal surrender of Japan. (Note: Plans for this critical conference were developed by Colonel David Larr, Chief of Planning on General Chamberlin's staff.) The clip concludes with views of many U.S. warships and of cargoes being loaded in readiness for the occupation of Japan.
Japanese aircraft during an air raid on positions in China during the Second Sino-Japanese conflict. Japanese bombers parked at an airfield. Pre-dawn view of several Japanese A5M aircraft warming up. Bomber aircraft pilots and crews lined up as they salute a commanding officer. Propellers rotate as engines warm up on a group of Mitsubishi Ki-2 Light Bombers. The ground crews wave their hats as the bombers leave for an air raid. Point of view shot of a Japanese flight crew in the cockpit of an airborne Mitsubishi Ki-2 aircraft. Bombs away view of bombs release over enemy target in China. The bombs impact and smoke rises up from targets. Aerial view of the bombers in flight, returning after the mission.
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