Opening scene shows cadets at the Imperial Japanese Military Academy in Tokyo, practicing Kendo martial art using bamboo swords (shinai) and wearing protective armor (bōgu). Next the cadets run an obstacle course. We see them leaping over a wall and then running over wooden poles across a deep open pit. They then leap another wall and climb out of a deep ditch and over a stone wall to the top. Next, students are seen demonstrating kendo in a courtyard at the a Military School in Kobe, Japan. Many spectators watch the demonstration.
Student attend a kendo training class in Methodist mission's Hirosaki Boys' school. Kendo skills on display. Shot approximately in 1934-1935.
Japanese college boys play kendo (sword fight) on ice skating ring in Japan. Japanese boy skates with sword in their hand. A group of boys wearing special helmets and swords in hand plays kendo. They fall on ice skating ring. (World War II period).
Opening scene shows instructor on a raised platform drilling students in preliminaries for Kendo training. Next, the students divided into two large teams, charge each other in combat exercise. The students wear protective armor (Bogu) and wield wooden swords (Bokken).
Small school girls play. Japanese children practice and compete in traditional Japanese martial arts Kendo with bamboo sticks. Japanese school children play tug of war and run through a line of showers on the way to a swimming pool to swim and play with a ball.
Japanese maid buys tofu or soybean curd from a street vendor. Japanese woman arranges flowers and places them on the family ancestral shrine. Old Japanese woman works on a new kimono while boy plays with his toys. At the railway station the Tokyo express arrives on time and official in-charge writes the train report. in a classroom at a Japanese school children learn to write Japanese characters. Children play baseball during school recess. Older children practice kendo.