News from Japan (1920-1929)

Japan.

View of a Japanese street.

Seeing off soldiers leaving for Manchuria.

Children waving flags.

Station.

Train.

Soldiers waving flags from their windows.

Girls singing a farewell to the soldiers.

Japanese officer.

Those seeing them off.

Peasants in the fields shouting "banza" to the train.

Filming from the train.

Enthusiastic crowds in the streets and stations.

Arrival of Japanese troops at the final stop, in the port.

Japanese soldiers seeing them off.

Soldiers sailing away on boats.

Crowd on the shore.

Departure of the ship.

Ship at anchor.

Students collecting funds for the soldiers.

Schoolchildren and children collecting gifts for the army.

Young men and women selling flowers to the fund to help the soldiers.

A girl presents her collection of stamps issued by Japanese institutions to the Minister of War Araki.

Mrs.

Otani, the Empress's younger sister, head of the women's Buddhist Association, collects funds in Kyoto for the fund to help soldiers.

Japanese in front of the Imperial Palace, praying for victory in the Sino-Japanese War.

Prayer for the dead in the temple.

Monks.

Buddhist monks.

Families of fallen soldiers at prayer.

Prayer for the "three heroes of Shanghai" with the participation of Kabuki actors