Students study Kendo outdoors at Methodist mission's Hirosaki Boys' School in Aomori, Japan. Crowds of students wearing armor bow to their sensei before the kendo class inside the campus (13-1 Minori-cho Hirosaki-shi, Aomori 036-8231). Male high school students bring out their swords. The put on their helmets. Two students wearing Kendo armor, also known as Bogu. A pair of students engage in a kendo match. Two Kendo sensei teachers bow to the camera before starting a match. The two men engage in a sword fighting match. Japanese students practice Kendo. A Japanese sensei stands near his students.
Kendo martial arts match between two Japanese boys. The boys engage in Kendo with Shinai sticks while wearing protective masks and Kendo armor (known and bougu). Children play and swim in the warm sunlight. Japanese children swimming. A Japanese grandmother holding an infant. A farmer planting rice in rice field. A group of children follow cinematographer Fred C. Ells. Rural Japanese boy carries a traditional Japanese umbrella April 1934.
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 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.
A sign in Japanese outside Korakuen Stadium (1-3-61 Koraku, Tokyo, Japan) in Tokyo, Japan during WWII. 30,000 young people gather at the Gungo Houkou Patriotic Tournament in Tokyo. Crowds fill the stadium. The flags of the Japanese Empire are on display. Camera pans to reveal view of the National Bayukendo Training Tokyo Tournament. Groups of college students lunge with their wooden swords for Kendo, also known as Shinai, at the Yoyogi parade ground. War veterans guide the students in kendo.
Men practice martial arts training at a training school in Japan. The sensei and other pupils sit near and watch closely. Two men practice jiu-jitsu wrestling bouts. Others practice Kendo, bamboo sword fighting. School building and trees can be seen at distance.