Two Japanese boys sitting beside a river, talking. Japanese boys are seen wearing swimming caps and fundoshi underwear. The younger boy expresses his wish to join the Imperial Japanese Navy as a pilot, but his mother is against it. Boys diving into the river from a rock. Boys climbing up steep rock. Older boy poses before diving into the river from a 40-foot rock. Two boys swimming and talking. Excited Japanese girl in kimono running out of her house. Cadet and old woman talking. Boy runs inside his house to thank his mother for her permission to join the navy. Japanese girl joins her brother, mother, and cousin inside the room. The cadet reassures his aunt.
Dramatized Japanese film depicts Japanese Navy personnel aboard a Type A Ko-hyoteki-class submarine as they advance toward attack on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese Navy officers converse and plan attack. One holds a model of his mother ship affiliated with his midget submarine. Scene changes to below-decks of the Japanese Imperial Navy mother ship for the submarine. An officer stops and looks at his watch. Back on board the midget submarine, the two man crew look at a watch at the same time. They stand and salute their home ship, from afar. Scenes of the crew member operating the control wheel and the officer in charge looking into the periscope. Simulated periscope view shows scene of Pearl Harbor under attack with fire and explosions. Submarine has broadside of a U.S. Navy warship in its sights. Officer gives command to crew member to fire torpedo. Crew member seen pulling a lever.
Dramatized scenes from Japanese film in World War 2, depicting citizens hearing news of the Pearl Harbor attack by Japan on the United States. Morning street scene of a Japanese village. View of a wall clock reading 6 am. Japanese family sits down and listens to radio news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Their reactions range from excitement to concern. They gather at a low table in a home to listen to the news.
Japanese propaganda film: "The Battle to 'Mop Up' China." During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Japanese troops in boats move up the Pearl River near Canton (Guangzhou) in Guangdong Province, China. They fire a gun from the boat. They disembark and make their way inland on muddy terrain. They wade through rice paddies, and fire machine guns and mortars. Victorious Japanese troops with captured Chinese prisoners pose for picture.
Film begins showing a Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-67 bomber parked in the grass at a Japanese airfield right after the end of World War II. American fighter aircraft fly overhead. Camera pans around the Japanese bomber with closeup of its engines. View from the rear showing its twin tail. Next, the camera focuses on a Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-67 medium bomber showing it from a tail view. The camera pans around the aircraft and then to many other multi-engine aircraft parked all over the field. Camera takes closeup of another Mitsubishi Ki-67. Film ends as a U.S. Army Air Forces C54 transport plane flies overhead.
Japanese soldiers push Japanese fighter plane at Atsugi Airdrome in Japan, soon after the end of World War 2. View of Japanese soldiers pushing Japanese fighter plane. They push it into steel structure of hangar.
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