Japan: About the past for the sake of the future (1975)

Newsreel from the 1930s: Japanese soldiers marching.

Women with small children on the streets of Japanese cities.

The hands of a samurai drawing a katana from its scabbard.

Children dressed as samurai playing with wooden swords.

Children with toy guns.

Children in military uniforms marching in formation.

Young Japanese soldiers training in hand-to-hand combat.

Bayonet fighting lesson.

Children in military uniforms performing one of the Japanese rituals.

People in the square performing a ritual glorifying the exploits of the samurai.

Faces of Japanese officers.

A sentry on duty.

Prisoners behind bars.

Japanese soldiers massacring civilians in China in 1937. The Japanese bury people alive in the ground.

The face of a Japanese officer giving a command.

People are shot in the back of the head.

Arrival of Japanese Foreign Minister Kichisaburo N. in Berlin in 1936. Ribbentrop talking to Japanese guests.

Ribbentrop speaking from the podium.

Participants in the signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact during a photo session.

Hitler A. raises his hand in a Nazi salute.

Stormtroopers march down the street.

Mussolini giving a speech.

Italian fascists standing in formation on the square salute Mussolini.

Japanese Minister of War Tojo on the podium.

People in the square salute Tojo.

Map of Japan's plans for conquest in the 1930s (animation).

Newsreel from 1938: view of part of Lake Hasan.

Japanese officers studying a map of military operations lying at their feet.

Artillery gun barrel.

Face of a Soviet artillery commander.

A Red Army soldier closes the gun breech.

The commander gives the command.

Soviet artillery begins firing at the enemy.

Soviet bombers flying.

Bombs exploding on the ground.

Pilots in the cockpit.

Soviet tanks attack.

A Red Army soldier stands leaning on his rifle.

The face of a Red Army soldier.

Landscape in one of the areas of the Khalkhin-Gol River in 1939. Japanese artillery fires.

Japanese planes are flying.

The face of a navigator looking through the sight.

The plane drops bombs.

A Soviet tank overcomes a water obstacle.

General view of the battlefield.

The face of the head of the Japanese burial team.

The Japanese burial team carries out the corpses of soldiers.

Loading the corpses of Japanese soldiers into the back of a truck.

Carrying a corpse on a stretcher.

Trucks with the corpses of Japanese soldiers pass by.

A Soviet traffic controller stands on the road.

Japanese officers walk.

Officers enter a tent.

Japanese officers at a tent, a white flag flutters nearby.

The Japanese flag on the mast of a warship.

Planes take off from the deck of a Japanese aircraft carrier.

Japanese planes are flying.

Japanese bombers dive on a target during the raid on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. American troops flee.

Planes drop bombs.

Explosions and fires on American ships in Pearl Harbor.

Japanese planes bomb Pearl Harbor.

Panorama of Pearl Harbor after the bombing.

American sailors run through the smoke.

Burning Pearl Harbor.

Panorama of destroyed buildings in the central square of Stalingrad, a sculpture of dancing children.

Soviet troops fight in the streets of Stalingrad in the fall of 1942. Soviet artillery fires at the enemy.

Officers of the Japanese General Staff at work.

Staff telephone operators at the switchboard.

Meeting of staff officers.

Japanese generals greet each other.

Japanese paratroopers board an airplane.

Japanese planes in the air.

Insects for causing epidemics of infectious diseases, grown in the bacteriological unit "731".

Photographs of the trial of Japanese war criminals in Khabarovsk.

Photographs of the accused.

Newsreel of 1944: Soviet tanks and artillery on the offensive.

Soviet tanks on the streets of liberated cities.

Exercises of Japanese coastal artillery.

Officers at the observation post.

Shelling of a training target.

View of the bow of the deck of a warship (top).

An airplane falling into the sea.

Allied combat operations against the Japanese in the Pacific Ocean.

The face of an American pilot.

American planes attack Japanese ships.

View of the attacked ship (top).

Panorama of a naval battle.

Kamikazes drink a ritual cup of sake.

A kamikaze pilot boards an airplane.

An airplane taking off.

A burning airplane.

American ships conduct anti-aircraft fire.

A burning Japanese airplane falls into the water.

Japanese soldiers marching.

Interior view of workshops of military factories in Japan.

Explosion of an atomic bomb.

Panorama of the destroyed neighborhoods of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Newspaper reports on the denunciation of the Neutrality Pact between the USSR and Japan.

Newsreel from 1945: the Soviet ambassador to Japan gets into a car.

A table clock.

Explosions of artillery shells.

Soviet artillery fires at the enemy.

A salvo of rocket launchers.

Bombs fall.

Soviet ships fire at coastal targets.

Soviet aircraft bomb Japanese positions.

Destruction along the line of Japanese fortifications.

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A Soviet choreographer helps Japanese ballet dancers put on their makeup during a tour in Moscow.

A Japanese dancer puts on her makeup in front of a mirror.

Performance by Japanese ballet dancers in Moscow.

Moscow audience applauds the Japanese dancers.

Japanese ballet dancers bow to the audience from the stage.

Schedule of classes at Russian language courses in Japan.

Students of Russian language courses during a regular class.

The teacher conducts the class.

The students respond in chorus.

The teacher reads a phrase in Russian.

The student repeats the phrase.

The teacher's face.

The students repeat the phrase in Russian in chorus.

A Japanese vocal quartet performs a song in Russian.

Performance by artists of the Kabuki Theater in Moscow.

The audience welcomes the artists and gives them flowers.

The audience applauds the Japanese artists.

Delegates of Japanese trade union organizations who arrived in Moscow for an international meeting in 1975 are met at the airport.

The delegates carry a banner with a slogan along the airfield.

Faces of Japanese delegates.

Head of delegation Tamuro speaks from the podium.

Delegates holding flowers walk to buses.

Meeting of Japanese trade union delegations in cities of the Far East.

Japanese delegates on a bus.

Japanese delegation visiting a sewing factory.

Soviet workers and engineers talking with Japanese guests.

General view of a workshop at one of the factories.

Banquet in honor of the Japanese guests.

Face of a Japanese delegate.

A Russian and Japanese woman talking.

Japanese industrialist Nagano S. talking to a journalist.

Face of a journalist.

Nagano continues giving an interview, a cameraman is filming.

Newsreel from 1970: a queue to the Soviet pavilion at the Expo-70 exhibition held in Osaka.

People with umbrellas stand in line in the rain.

State flag of the USSR. The Japanese examine a model of a Soviet spacecraft.

Faces of visitors to the exhibition.

Model of a hydroelectric power station.

Faces of visitors to the exhibition.

The Japanese examine wooden products made by Russian craftsmen.

Russian furs and wooden products presented at the exhibition.

Faces of visitors to the exhibition.

People walk past the exhibition stands.

View of the Moscow City Council building.

A delegation of Japanese parliamentarians during a visit to the Moscow City Council.

Deputy Chairman of the Moscow City Council V. P. Isaev introduces the Japanese guests to the General Plan for the Reconstruction of Moscow.

The Japanese guests accept souvenirs.

A hand leafing through an album with views of Moscow.

Views of buildings and streets in Moscow. N. V. Podgorny receives the Japanese parliamentary delegation in the Kremlin.

Podgorny, L. I. Brezhnev, and A. N. Kosygin meet the Japanese delegation in the Kremlin before the start of negotiations in 1973. A reporter takes photographs.

Faces of Brezhnev, Kosygin, and A. A. Gromyko.

The participants in the negotiations sit down at the table.

The head of the Japanese delegation K. Tanaka.

Members of the Soviet leadership negotiate with the Japanese delegation.

View of one of the chandeliers in the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Brezhnev and Kosygin shake hands with the Japanese guests after negotiations.

Tanaka and Brezhnev talk to each other.

Brezhnev's face.

Views of Tokyo streets.

Newsreel from 1945: view of a destroyed block of one of the cities in Japan.

Tokyo residents descend into the subway.

People on the streets of Tokyo.

Streets of Tokyo in the evening.

Production processes at industrial enterprises and construction sites in Japan.

Women with children on the streets of one of the cities in Japan.

Anti-war demonstration in Japan.

Cherry blossoms.

People's faces.

View of the memorial in Hiroshima.

Praying women.

Face of a girl.

Sculpture of a girl with a crane.

Children hang garlands of paper cranes.

Anti-war rally in Hiroshima.

View of the memorial in Hiroshima.

Ocean waves crashing against coastal rocks.

A seagull flies.