Video Parts (17 across 6 reels)
This clip is Reel 5, Part 1 of a 17-part film. Watch from the beginning
JAPANESE BEHAVIOR Reel 5 · Part 1
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Summary: On the psychology and living habits of the Japanese people. Reel 1 shows Tokyo street scenes and planting, cultivation, and harvesting of rice. Reel 2 shows entertainment: sports (wrestling, jiu-jitsu, horse racing, etc.), night clubs, and traditional Japanese dances and drama. Reel 3 describes the precision in household operation and in the Japanese theater. Explains the hierarchy of social strata. Reel 4, a Japanese melodrama exemplifies the duties which each person owes to others in the prescribed scheme. Reel 5 describes the geisha girls' place in society and shows recreational pastimes: a steeplechase, sports events, holiday parades, and a cherry blossom festival. School children are indoctrinated in military history. Reel 6 explains the psychology of the Samurai and Bushido codes. Shows atrocities committed by the Japanese troops in China. Sec. of State Hull lands in Tokyo and President Roosevelt speaks on December 6, 1941, outlining diplomatic efforts to keep the peace.
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Records of the Office of Strategic Services