After opening slate in Japanese, General of the Imperial Japanese Army, Baron Sadao Araki, enters and stands before the Japanese flag to introduce the film. As he continues to speak in the background, images move across the screen, including clouds, a spinning world globe, a relief map of Japan, a circular striped spinning disk, a man seen from waist down walking across low grass and foliage. He transitions to walking along a sidewalk and then to a street, where his shadow is cast on the pavement. Next, storm clouds appear, followed by numerous images of the legs and feet of ordinary people walking on a city sidewalk. Most are in Western dress. But some women wear kimonos.
A Japanese militaristic propaganda film on the material and spiritual strength of Japan. Narration by General of the Imperial Japanese Army Baron Sadao Araki. General Baron Sadao Araki speaks. He is accompanied by another military official. Animated display of Japanese administrative organizational charts.
Millions of Chinese people migrating west and invoking a "scorched earth" policy to slow advance of Japanese forces invading from Shanghai and Nanking, during the second Sino-Japanese war. Long line of Chinese refugees making the trek on foot and transporting their belongings on hand-pulled carts. Chinese entering a library, a school, and a hospital to salvage contents and take them west. Chinese people pulling amazing large loads on carts. Narrator says they salvaged hundreds of millions of pounds of machinery from factories. Trucks and oxen being employed to move goods and equipment on a two thousand mile journey westward. A huge crowd of refugees gathered along a railroad, all rise up from the ground as a steam locomotive appears in the distance. Closeup of Chinese people climbing into rail cars. A glimpse of some intrepid travelers climbing atop the cars. Next, the crowd works to dismantle the railroad, placing rails and ties aboard the train for future use and to deprive the Japanese of them. View of the train, moving slowly, with people occupying every imaginable place. Many crowd the front of the locomotive, itself. Scenes of other trains show many persons riding on tarpaulins that have been tied across the tops of rail cars. Some simply sit on the car roofs. Others are Jam-packed together on open air flat cars. Sampans and barges loaded with refugees and supplies are seen moving westward on China's rivers. Closeups of vessels filled with people. Passengers rowing and working to move the boats. Lines of Chinese crewmen pulling their boats upstream through narrow river gorges. Closeups of gangs of men pulling on tow ropes, as men on the boats assist using long poles to push the boats forward. People walking with backpacks. Narrator speaks of 30 million people moving westward. More scenes of the masses of humanity on the trek.
Japanese film stars in New York, United States. They arrive for "Japanese film week." People gather in a hall. Actors and actresses from Japan pose. Men talk amongst themselves. Flag in the background. The Japanese stars are greeted by the Hollywood MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) Chief, Eric Johnston.
Project Japanese evacuation. A miniature Japanese pagoda. A Japanese man carries flowers and walks in a flower garden. A van with 'Lyon' written drives on the roads.
Japanese men and women walk out of Japanese Registration Control Station building at San Francisco. Japanese people at the office interviewed by social workers, who fill details of them on paper records. Receptionist and other workers of the office busy at work.
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