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Japan Fulbright Experience (for K-12 teachers) Promo video (11:51)

Japan-Miracle in Asia (1963) (32:54)

Explains how Japan's rapid industrial growth has influenced the way of life in the country and has affected the international political and economic position of the country. Suggests that Japan turned to industrialization to support a rapidly growing population on a small and relatively poor land area. Deneen shot the aerial shots himself alone, while piloting a single-engine aircfraft, pointing the camera out the window.

My Japan - U.S. Treasury Department

Complex and disturbing anti-Japanese propaganda film produced to spur the sale of U.S. war bonds. CONTENT ADVISORY: Explicit racism and extreme violence.

Shopping and Eating in Japan 

A ten minute documentary about shopping and eating in Japan. Friends usually comment that Japan must be an expensive country, this video shows that shopping and eating in Japan does not have to be expensive if you look around. The video does not look at rental property or transportation, as these can be expensive.  (11:34)

Japan Today 6/20/1946

"Japan: In the midst of black markets and inflationary prices, life for the average Japanese is grim and barren. Rebuilding homes and harvesting meagre crops keep some healthy and housed, but many have to tighten their belts." scenes of life in Japan, poverty, gardens planted, black market. (partial newsreel) (01:29)

International Dateline: Japan - Trial by Jury (2008) Preview 01:09

This week's episode of Dateline takes a look at Japan's new proposed jury system, and how it is being received there. Also, an interview with former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans and a new take on religion in Malaysia.

To the shores of Iwo Jima (1945) 19:07

An Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary, this 20 minute Technicolor production unfolds with graphic energy the nearly month long battle for Iwo Jima, a volcanic island lying 700 miles southeast of Japan, in which 20000 Japanese and nearly 7000 American fighting men were killed, a struggle eternalized by Joe Rosenthal's photograph of five Marines and a Navy corpsman raising a giant U.S. flag atop 550 foot high Mt. Suribachi, cinematically captured here in this well-edited (by Warner Bros.) effort.

Japanese Relocation (ca 1943) 09:28

U.S. government-produced film defending the World War II internment of Japanese American citizens.