" THE ENEMY JAPAN " WWII U.S. PROPAGANDA FILM PART III THE DREAM OF EMPIRE 73112a

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One of three films produced by the March of Time for the U.S. Navy entitled "The Enemy Japan", Part III deals with the Japanese "dream of empire" and the assaults made by Japan on its neighbors in Asia prior to the formal outbreak of WWII. The film contains some astonishing footage of Japanese atrocities, and also shows the close ties between Nazi Germany and the Fascist Japanese — with Japanese diplomats / emissaries being feted by Hitler in Berlin at the 18 minute mark.

The film begins with Ambassador Joseph Grew asserting to the camera that Japanese "have got to be beaten until they know they are beaten". Japanese have been "fanatical, resourceful, treacherous and murderous" in their aggression against China. Creation of Manchukuo under puppet Emperor Pu Yi (reviewing troops), gave Japan control of industrial development and agriculture using Chinese labour, while opium usage was simultaneously expanded. Bombing of Shanghai in 1937 by Japanese Army Air Force (Zero fighters and twin-engine bombers take off, street devastation) caused USN casualties on board USS Augusta (funeral on deck). Chinese refugees flee city as US missionaries, targeted by Japanese, tend wounded civilians.

Developing new tactics of improvisation and building up their military experience Japanese moved up Yangtse River in series of amphibious operations: armed air boats move up river, floatplanes reconnoitre, supplies are moved along bank of river, soldiers cross water over human pontoon. Chenju railway station. After occupation Chinese work under Japanese guard. Strategic and economic importance of South-East Asia: timber, hemp (grown by Japanese colonists on Davao) and coalmines of Philippines; rubber plantations, tin mines of poorly defended British Malaya, with port and dry dock of Singapore; oil fields and quinine (anti-malaria) bark and naval bases of Netherlands East Indies; space, coal, iron ore and sheep of Australia. Official visit in March 1941 of Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka to Berlin, met by Ribbentrop, Goering and Hitler, obtains German consent for Japanese occupation of French Indo-China. Replacement in October 1941 of Konoye as Premier by General Hideki Tojo leads to attack on Pearl Harbor.

Joseph C Grew the narrator, was the U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1932-1941).

Some of the shots include: Japanese expansion prior to World War II, and the artificial nation of Manchukuo. A Chinese city is bombed. Shows corpses in the flaming streets. Inf. and horse-drawn munitions carts advance. Reel 2, Japanese Statesmen and generals confer. Tojo is installed as premier. Inf. advances under artillery cover. Troops alight from trucks. Shows Manchukuo's puppet emperor Pu-yi, a hydroelectric project in Manchuria, and peasants surrendering crops to Japanese troops. Shanghai is bombed. Nanking massacre. Shows debris in the flaming city and the damaged Augusta in the harbor. U.S. missionaries treat refugees. Japanese troops enter the city and cross a river in small boats. Chinese slave labor constructs a railroad. Reel 3, coal cars are moved along the tracks. Shows activities in the lumber and hemp industries at Davao, and at a tin mine in Malaga, Philippines; harbor facilities in Singapore; oil derricks and cinchona trees in the Netherlands East Indies; and coal and iron mines, sheep herds, and city streets in Australia. Japanese envoys are greeted by Hitler and Goring in Berlin. Japanese troops advance in Indo-China. Tojo succeeds Konoye in a cabinet crisis. Pearl Harbor is bombed. Shows flaming ruins and the sunken battleship Arizona.

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