KODO NIPPON. TOHO PRODUCTIONS
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- Creating body, as recorded
- War Department. Military Intelligence Division
- National Archives Identifier
- 43668 (local identifier 242-MID-2031)
- Internet Archive item
- gov.archives.arc.43668 (uploader's licence mark: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/)
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- foreign-production
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National Archives and Records Administration KODO NIPPON. TOHO PRODUCTIONS War Department. Military Intelligence Division. (08/26/1918 - 04/19/1947) [JAPANESE] ARC Identifier 43668 / Local Identifier 242-MID-2031. Reel 1, shows the imperial symbols. the palace bridge. ships, buildings, automobiles, street railways, cherry blossoms, mountains, and shrines. Japanese perform a Kagura dance. Reel 2, shows views of the Japanese countryside. Buddhist temples, a waterfall, a mountain stream. shrines and monuments. Reel 3, shows Japanese shrines. status, and monuments in Keijo (?), Korea. Japanese dancers perform. Shows the imperial palace, including interior views and paintings of Emperor Hirohito and the Empress (?). Reel 4, shows still pictures of Japanese personages. views of the palace, the Tokyo railway station, murals, and statues. Farmers work in a rice field; dancers perform; and ocean waves pound the Japanese coast. Made possible by a donation from John and Paige Curran.