Japanese submarines in action in the Indian Ocean during World War II. Japanese script. The deck of a Japanese submarine as it emerges on the surface. Water washes over the deck of the submarine. Japanese crewmen come down a ladder to the main deck. The submarine underway on the surface. Two officers examine the damage caused to the deck of the submarine. Japanese crewmen look at a chart. Pictures of two merchant ships. A Japanese officer and crewmen look at the pictures. A radioman at a radio as he jots down some information. A Japanese puts up a poster on a stanchion. Japanese crewmen laugh and talk aboard the submarine. The crewmen at a table as they raise a toast with a drink of saki. The crewmen eat and drink at the table. Japanese crewmen up in the bridge look down over the deck of the submarine. Men on the helm. A compass. The deck of the submarine. Water washes against the side of the submarine. Japanese crewmen get their beards shaved. A crewman gets a haircut. A crewman's mustache being cut with hand clippers. A Japanese crewman gets a rub down and another man washes his face with a cloth. A crewman sews a rating on his uniform. He holds up his white uniform. The bow of the submarine. Crewmen climb up the scuttle hatch onto the deck. They relax on the deck and smoke cigarettes. Two sampans row past the submarine. A merchant ship in the background. Japanese crewmen wave their hats. A Japanese submarine on the surface in a harbor. Tree lined shoreline in the background. The Japanese flag flies from the submarine.
Japanese 9th Division regular army troops marching outside a compound in Shanghai, China. Soldiers with bayonets sit on top of a moving truck. Soldiers hold a Japanese flag while sitting on top of supplies from a moving truck. Japanese soldiers cross the Huangpu Creek bridge. Soldiers with bayonets marching in the International Settlement of Shanghai. Kenkichi Ueda, Commander in Chief of the Japanese Imperial Army standing in front of a barracks. General Ueda and soldiers enter the barracks together. Soldiers firing artillery at Shanghai. Shanghai being bombarded. Japanese gunners pull artillery back into place with ropes after recoil drives cannon backwards. An artillery fires more shells. A burning house. Japanese soldier riding a motorcycle with sidecar. A Japanese soldier uses a pair of binoculars. Thick smoke forms over Shanghai. Japanese soldiers running in Shanghai. Soldiers running past a tank. Type 87 Model 25 Vickers Crossley "Dowa" armored car equipped with two Vickers 303 machine guns moving down street. Inside view of Type 87 Model 25 armored car. Japanese soldiers firing with machine guns next Type 87 Model 25. A dead Chinese man lying on the snow. Japanese soldiers firing with machine guns beside a tank. Japanese soldiers standing on a bridge. Japanese soldiers capture Chinese spies dressed as women and farmers. Two Japanese soldiers support an injured comrade. Chinese captives kneeling beside Japanese soldiers at train depot. Chinese refugees leaving Shanghai on foot. Chinese locals stand on boats sailing out of Shanghai. Panicking crowds leaving Shanghai en masse.
The Japanese military in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II. Sea and buildings in the background. Ships at sea. Meeting of Japanese military officers including Imperial Japanese Navy officers and an aircraft pilot in flight gear. An animated map of Japanese positions and movements. Elevated sweeping views of a part of Canton, China. Fire burning in buildings of the Chinese city, as seen from ground level view. Smoke rises from building. Japanese troops walk on a street of city and interrogate a captured Chinese soldier. Japanese Prince Yasuhito tours the Canton combat zone. Signs of Japanese flag on a map. Japanese troops fire artillery. A collapsed Chinese building. Japanese artillery and tanks fire into the center of a Chinese town at close range. Japanese forces with machine guns and rifles fire at Chinese forces from behind a walled area. A Japanese soldier carries an injured comrade back to the Japanese covered position.
Japanese forces attack city of Nanking in 2nd Sino-Japanese war. Animated map shows Japanese forces moving from Shanghai towards Nanking. Arrow points to the American gunboat, USS Panay, in the Yangtze River. View of the USS Panay in the river, with large American flag displayed on its covering. A Japanese Navy Nakajima E8N reconnaissance plane in flight overhead. Explosions on shore of river as viewed from the USS Panay. Sailors firing anti-aircraft gun from the Panay. Wounded and dead U.S. sailors being evacuated from the gunboat as it sinks from bombing. The evacuation launch pulling away from the Panay. View of the Panay sinking by the stern in the Yangtze. Scene shifts to Chinese troops entrenched in defenses of Nanking. Chinese troops running to defensive positions from their fort. View from above of Japanese artillery crews firing field pieces. View from Japanese lines of shells striking Chinese fortifications on hill in distance. Closeups of Chinese infantry defending from wooded area in hills. Closeup of Japanese soldiers firing 75mm field artillery pieces and infantry advancing as their bugler sounds charge on his horn. View from fortress wall as Chinese army defenders stand ready to meet the charge. Japanese gunners firing 75mm field gun (Model 94). Japanese infantry breaching Chinese defenses and using scaling ladders to climb them. Japanese infantry charging toward the camera. They break open an entrance gate to the Chinese fortress and charge inside. Carrying Rising Sun flag, the Japanese infantry begin attacks within the Nanking city proper. some huddle behind a 75mm gun firing down a street. City buildings falling to shellfire. Infantry running through the city. Dense smoke rising from shelling. Japanese infantry running down an alley, with Pagoda in background. Field piece firing point blank at a building. Fires burning. Japanese troops celebrating victory as the city falls to them.
Massacres in Nanking during second Sino-Japanese war. Japanese army troops and Type 89 I-Go tanks enter city gates to occupy Nanking, China. they break into a building and take away a Chinese man on a rope tether. Chinese inhabitants confined by the city walls are unable to escape brutal treatment by Japanese soldiers who are seen dragging men, women and children to be shot. Many are herded into a pit where Japanese soldiers standing above, execute them with rifle fire, as others fill the pit with earth, burying any survivors alive. Two Chinese kneeling with arms tied behind them are summarily executed by soldiers with rifles. A Japanese officer follows with a pistol to assure their death. Bodies of dead Chinese civilians litter an alleyway. Many scenes of Chinese killed by Japanese. (Narrator states that Japanese troops murdered 40 thousand men, women and children.) Japanese Field Marshal Count Terauchi Hisaichi is seen stepping from a transport airplane, followed by Field Marshal Shunroku Hata. Count Terauchi looks pleased as he is greeted and exchanges salutes with other officers. Next, the scene reverts, again to the horrors of Chinese peoples' suffering in Nanking, at the hands of the Japanese soldiers. Views of injured and wounded Chinese civilians, at a hospital, in pictures taken by an American Missionary, and smuggled out of china. A woman holding her injured husband as he lies against a cushion in a street. A small child stands near them. Scene shifts to a smiling Field Marshal Shunroku Hata, greeting local commanders, while photographers record the event in background. Views revert to the destruction and human tragedy in Nanking. A picture of Chinese leader, Sun Yat Sen. Chiang Kai-Shek speaking at a podium, and other Chinese political leaders speaking to gathered people, throughout unoccupied China, encouraging them to unite and resist Japanese aggression. Chinese people parading with banners to encourage resistance. Chinese soldiers and political leaders collaborating to raise armies. Chiang Kai-Shek ascending to Political leadership, exhorting Chinese to unite and fight the Japanese. Numerous scenes of rallies calling for unity and resistance. Chinese military officers standing as Chiang Kai-Shek enters a planning session. He sits and then they do. Behind him on the wall is a map of China. Closeup of Chiang as he outlines a strategy to slowly yield territory to Japanese invaders, to buy time for developing and arming Chinese forces. One of his staff goes to a wall map and gestures as he speaks. Next, Chinese soldiers are seen setting dynamite charges and blowing up lines of communication (roads). Chinese people pour petrol on grain fields and set them ablaze. Factory buildings being blown up and similar destruction as China pursues a "scorched earth" policy to hinder the Japanese invaders. Millions of Chinese people on the move to Western parts of China. (Narrator calls this the greatest human migration ever recorded.)
United States Relocation Program by War Relocation Authority (WRA) during World War II. Japanese child gives roller skate to mother who packs it. Japanese couple shows paper to guard and leaves relocation center, getting aboard a Trailways bus. Other Japanese relocated greeted at railway station. Map of United States shows relocation (internment) areas. War Relocation Office main door. A Japanese man gives documents to an officer; he reads the papers and makes a call. Japanese-American couple with a young daughter go from house to house attempting to rent apartment. Japanese people in a hostel. A woman plays piano while other women sit and talk. People look at map showing housing availability. Japanese-American couple rents apartment. They are seen happily in their apartment hanging clothes in the closet. Japanese-American woman at grocery store. White woman helps her choose items that are not rationed. She holds a can of peaches. White woman shows Japanese-American woman the point value price card. Japanese-American women and her daughter visit park with white woman and her son. Children play with a toy sailboat at the waters edge. Relocation center kitchen. Japanese-American family sits at the dinner table. Children run in a relocation center. Women sit in a park and talk. Man feeds geese with his children beside water. People walk past fountain. Japanese-American women sit on beach in Chicago. Pedestrians walking on sidewalk outside and under the Lowe's Stillman theater marquee in Chicago. The movie 'Above Suspicion' displayed on marquee. Woman window shopping. Japanese couple sits on porch of house.