FIRST REEL: Tokyo Bay, Townsend Harris (1856) house, fishing, O-Kichi-San memorial dance, Oshima, rocky coast, main-line train to Tokyo, Emperor Hirohito arrives at Diet, Prince Konoye presiding at Diet in session, speech by Yukio Ozaki a member since Constitution in 1889, reporter takes proceedings of Diet, press-room, type-setters, printing stories of fires, floods and politics, Kabuki-za theatre, Actor Kikugoro Onoye, sumo wrestlers at the Kokugi-kan, Tokyo at night, Ginza, Sumida river, singing Geishas. SECOND REEL: Babies increase in population, countryside agricultural, logging, weir and sports fishing, irrigation, rice farming, weaving tatami, Himeji Castle, feudal influence, the Army with cavalry, tractor towed artillery and infantry march to Yasukuni Shrine where they are reviewed by Prince Chichibu, Shinto Shrines, the Bon Odori festival, the railways of Japan with the ceremonial opening with the first train to enter the Tanna tunnel, life in the Japan Alps in winter, massed ski drill, skiing. THIRD REEL: Flower arranging, calligraphy, silk industry with worm stages, feeding, spinning, production, dyeing and export from Yokohama on a Trans-Pacific silk express ship, oyster divers seeding and harvesting, Mashiko pottery, hand fired kilns, tea leaf harvesting and tea ceremony. FOURTH REEL: Tour of the Empire; shipping map including Canada, Imperial Japanese Navy battleships, making signals, firing, Hokkaido Ainu Bear Ceremony, Gilyaks and Orokes of Japanese Saghalien tent interiors, reindeer, clearing land, Kurile Islands north to Kamchatka, seals, deep sea fishing, long liners, whaling, deck gun, salmon netting, Manchuria, Great Wall, pagodas, camels hauling sleds, wheat fields, Russian droshkys, railways, Korea, lifestyles, playing go, stream washing, countryside, Taiwan, countryside, lifestyles, aborigines fishing nets, salt beds, sugarcane, Chinese camphor coolies, Micronesia including the Marshall Islands, Carolines and Yap, locals, tapping~rubber, phosphate, Imperial Fleet with battle cruiser and aircraft carrier. FIFTH REEL: Kids go to school, phys.ed, morning formations, exercises, march to camera, university sports, Koshien Stadium, factory workers exercise, textile factory, toy aeroplanes, B-AWA takes off to camera, steel mill pouring, the launch of the ship Chichibu Maru, university Olympic Games sports, Kamakura, Asakusa theatre district, Samurai sword fight, geisha dance, majorettes, mass kendo swordplay battle, march into stadium, mass calesthenics, Olympic Games, festival dance, sea shipping.
