Film reviews China's four thousand years of history. Scenes showing mountains, woods, and a farmer plowing with oxen in rural China. A mass of Chinese people tightly packed together as they walk along a narrow alleyway in a town. Fleeting glimpses of two Chinese soldiers; a child; a woman; a woman and child; and numerous other Chinese people in a montage splayed across a background of moving crowds. An open book of Chinese characters. Mariners compass superimposed on an moving image of an ocean liner. Views of several large-scale astrolabes and world globes. A Chinese worker placing porcelainware in an oven for glazing. A man spooning gunpowder into a dish, followed by glimpse of a Chinese firework igniting. Chinese paper Dragon and street celebrations. A book entitled: "Analects of Confucius," in which, on page 105, is found the admonition: "What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." Ancient statues of two men and of two riderless horses behind them. Tall Chinese pagodas. Chinese artillery field pieces firing. Chinese troops advancing in several situations during conflict with Japan. Map of China and illustration of Japanese samurai warrior emblazoned across it. A book entitled: "The Tanaka Memorial, (Japan's Dream of World Empire)." A still photograph of Japanese Foreign Minister Baron Tanaka Giichi in military uniform, with other Japanese officers. Excerpts shown, ostensibly from this book. Emperor Hirohito is seen with Baron Tanaka, and other officers, all in military uniforms, in front of a tent, circa 1928. Automated map ostensibly illustrates the elements of a Japanese plan of conquest, starting with Manchuria for raw materials; the absorption of China for manpower; followed by a sweep South for riches of the Indies and Australia; and lastly a sweep eastward to crush the United States. More views of crowds of Chinese people are followed by an. animated map illustrating early World War II events, including Nazi Operation Barbarossa against Russia, approved by German leader Adolf Hitler in 1940, and the Nazi German occupation of Denmark, Norway, and other European countries. (Note: Actual existence of the so-called "Tanaka Memorial Imperialist Conquest Plan" is a subject of debate among historians.)
Former Japanese prison guards and liberated allied prisoners of war at a Japanese prison camp in Manchuria during the Second Sino-Japanese War (World War II). The guards dig up Red Cross cartons intended for the prisoners. They were confiscated and buried by the Japanese. Soldiers stand with guns. A soldier plays guitar. A United States Army general speaks. Panoramic views of emaciated ex-prisoners. The liberated prisoners are loaded into transport planes. The airplane in flight.
Japanese soldiers, men and women civilians debarking from Japanese wooden vessel at pier in Fukuoka, Japan. Two United States guards look as the Japanese file into a wooden building for screening by Counter Intelligence Corps. Many Japanese women with children on their back, waiting in queue. Sign reads 'Inspection Station of the U.S. Military Government'. (World War II period).
Japanese emissary with wooden leg prosthetics sits down to sign at Japanese surrender ceremonies in Tokyo Bay at end of World War 2. Other Japanese emissary signs. Japanese delegation waiting to sign.
Japanese men and women walk in to Japanese Registration Control Station building at San Francisco. Japanese people at the office interviewed by social workers. An old Japanese couple sits before a doctor and talk to him. The doctor makes report of their discussion. Other workers sit beside the doctor.
Japanese surrender aboard USS Missouri in the Tokyo Bay, Japan. A launch approaches Missouri. Japanese envoys board and walk to surrender position. General of the Army (U.S. Army) Douglas MacArthur at a microphone. He addresses Japanese delegation. Japanese Prime Minster Shigemitsu Mamoru walks to a table and sits down. Russian emissary, Lieutenant General Kazma Derevyanko signs.
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