JAPANESE TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WWII ERA U.S. WAR DEPARTMENT FILM 23704
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 มิ.ย. 2018
- "The Transportation and Communication of Japan" is a black and white, restricted film created between 1942 and 1947. It was official film #MISC 1061 and was produced for the War Department (which was dissolved September, 1947) by the Army Pictorial Service (created in 1942 by General George C. Marshall). It was assembled from Japanese films and used in the Civil Affairs Training Schools conducted by the Provost Marshal General. Its main purpose was to inform the viewers -- presumably U.S. servicemen and officers -- of how Japan’s transportation and communication systems are organized.
Credits (0:14-0:47). View of Japan’s Mt Fuji and a fishing boat in a river in the foreground (0:48-1:08). Mountainous terrain with a railroad traveling through it and along the coast. Trains are a main transportation source (1:09-2:10). Travelers unloading from a train (2:16-2:40). Japanese Express trains, a faster way to travel (2:42-2:55). Japanese Rotary Snow trains remove snow from the mountainous tracks (2:56-3:26). A pusher type snow plow removing snow (3:27-3:34). Tokyo, capital of Japan, is dominated by trains and subways and is the center of the railroad system. JR East operates Tokyo’s largest network, including the Yamanote Line loop (4:16-4:41). Handling freight by rail (4:48-5:01). Electric trains are in Tokyo and Osaka (5:02-5:20). A Tokyo subway entrance (5:23-5:41). Tokyo’s Elevated Railway (5:42-6:07). Fukuoka, capital of Kyushu Island (6:09-6:32). Fukuoka’s street car (6:33-6:42). A street car for watering the streets (6:58-7:04). Fukuoka buses that burn charcoal (7:05-7:30). Japanese standing in line for the bus (8:09-8:30). Bus lines for the rural areas (8:32-10:21). Bay in which Admiral Perry anchored in 1853 (9:17-9:34). A truck on the narrow road (10:33-10:45). Car transportation on city streets (11:03-11:22). Japanese Taxi cab (11:30-11:42). Motorcycles share the roads (11:47-12:00). Japanese Rickshaws (12:01-12:06). Oxen power for farming (12:11-12:17). Bicycle transportation, some with trailers (12:17-12:36). Donkey’s pulling a wagon through the streets (12:38-13:04). A pig pulling a wagon (13:05-13:21). Many kinds of bridges can be found in Japan: Arched wooden bridge (13:29-13:35), straight wooden bridges (13:36-13:58), steel and concrete bridges built like American bridges (14:26-14:55). Japanese sculls, sampans, and fishing vessels provide transportation (15:08-16:22). Japanese fishing craft, often powered by sail or oars (16:23-16:52). Japanese ships are now used for cargo (17:01-18:17). Air travel: Douglas DC-3 or the Showa L2D (18:30-19:06). Mt. Fuji (19:13-19:17). A radio tower (19:20-19:30). Radio studio recording (20:00-20:06) a Japanese conductor conducting the Naval band (20:07-20:17), a man singing (20:22-20:24). Japanese listening to their radio (20:36-21:30). Telegraph communication (21:40-21:52). Newspaper row in Tokyo, where daily news is printed (21:53-22:31). Hand typesetting the newspaper (22:32-22:43). Printing the newspaper (22:49-23:04). Corner newspaper stand (23:16-23:18). Aircraft equipped with a photographic studio and able to take pictures, develop them, and print them (23:46-24:22). Radiotelegraphy (24:33-24:39). Carrier pigeons used to send photographs (24:58-25:16). Map showing where hydroelectric power sources are. Honshu Island has most of it with Nagoya the main recipient (25:25-26:01). Flowing Japanese rivers and dams (26:17-28:04). Power generators (28:06-28:22). Power house control board (28:28-28:33). Transformer station (28:36-28:57). Wind mill (28:58-29:28).
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I was stationed in Japan for just over three years, the best experience of my youth, even the ones that were protesting our presence were polite and very pleasant to engage in conversation. I even had the opportunity to talk to shipyard workers that worked on the IJN Yamato and the Shinano . I asked him if he had any problems with working on my ship USS Midway, his response was the pay is better and the work easier.
Dennis Jones - I visited the Midway in San Diego a few years ago. Got to talk to a Marine pilot veteran who flew F4Us.
Dennis, sounds like we were there at nearly the same time. I lived in Yokohama from 19791-74, and went to High School on Yokosuka. Even did the Tiger Cruise aboard the Midway. Great times!
"Please stop the occupation. Thank you."
My instructor at the shipyard was on the Midway!
I like how at 11:00 the narrator says something about Japanese auto manufacturers producing vehicles that are not up to American standards. It’s interesting to think about how far they’ve come in such a short period of time. Props to Japan for proving this guy wrong
well, the guy wasn't wrong, Japanese quality at that time was that of today's China, maybe worse.
@@tomservo5007 debatable
At 11:00 "Almost all of these cars and trucks are of American, or British manufacture, as the Japanese have been unable to produce automobiles to the same quality as the Western World."
A few decades later, and Japanese vehicles make up a plurality of all those owned in the USA and "Western World."
I got a chuckle out of that one as well.
"...as the Japanese have been unable to produce automobiles to the same quality as the Western World"
YET
The British Austin Seven was the basis of the first Audi and the first Toyota (though those companies weren't called that, then). Britain's last truly "home grown" volume car manufacturer closed down in 2003.
Exactly...the US response to the Honda Civic were the AMC Gremlin, Ford Pinto and Chevy Vega...yep, some real competition... 🤣
"As in America, the schoolchildren hitch their rides to school on passing trucks."
oh, how the times have changed
The fact that you could see Mt Fuji in the intro, without seeing any city? Was astounding.
and today Japan has the finest rail system in the world and the US passenger rail system is a decaying shadow of its former self .
The leap to Air travel made after WW2 helped lead to the decline of Rail Travel.
Freight rail is actually doing pretty good right now. After losing smaller business to trucks they're left with what they do best, hauling huge amounts of stuff over long distances.
@@s.sestric9929 Yes....hauling by rail is MUCH CHEAPER (by the ton) than using Planes or Trucks....saves LOTS of fuel!!
The US has one of the best freight rail systems if not the best, while Japan's passenger railways are comparable to European railways...
@@davidhollenshead4892 I guess the one thing they have done well is their "Bullet Trains". Japan is so much smaller than the US I guess it makes sense to travel by Rail than by Air most of the time.
Did you know that Japan's electric generation has two distinct types of alternating current? 50 Hz for one part of the country, and 60 Hz for another. There's a switch on appliances sold in Japan to coincide with the area where the appliance is to be used.
"Docile" - it's called having some damn manners.
………Are “DAMN” manners any different from the normal, everyday manners ?
@@foulMAOredSOW Damn right!
Nice and simple. I miss this kind of old school comment on the background.
Interesting that this was prepared for official, limited release to people that were required to know the actual conditions. It seems to be remarkably accurate and even-handed in assessments. If you were to look at similar films and even travelogues, whether European or American, it shows the conditions were very much like European or North American or some locations in South America and far ahead of the remainder of Asia in the 1930's-1940's.
To be fair to the makers of this film on radio, radio was not anywhere as common throughout the world as modern viewers might think - in fact, receivers were only permitted in many countries in the world. Look at Great Britain where today the BBC requires the viewer to pay a fee to 'use' the BBC, the government broadcasting service.
Also, as to the rail system, the comments about the size of American locomotives, generally American (and Canadian) locomotives were some of the largest in the world in this period due to the vast distances involved and the need to move very heavy loads.
Now far behind Korea and China.
aa bb ; you might check beyond what the media wants you to believe. China has a large part of their population that still would qualify in most countries as in poverty. Both Korea and China is not some technological nirvana. On the other hand Japan is technologically in the top of “First World Nation” status, even rural areas. That certainly not the case in China.
@@aabb-zz9uw Not even close lol
Amazing! Now they have the fastest and most modern rail system in the world!!
The Japanese embraced the passenger railroad then put the rest of the world to shame
charcoal burning bus , now that's something I didn't know was widely used in Japan
Also many wood and charcoal burning autos in Australia during the war. Very resourceful folks.
I'm sitting watching this in my study. In front of me are 4 amateur radio sets - every single one Japanese.
Yaesu, Icom, JRC, and Kenwood?
But we nowadays use Korean or Chinese handphones.
@@aabb-zz9uw yeah right, no real enthusiast wants their junk!
11:47 that’s a movie scene from Japanese movie “Tokyo rhapsody”(1936)
T: 11:2O "can not produce (vehicles)at the same price and quality as American cars......" and now they dominate the world. The Irony
Amazing what you can do when you're no longer devoting all your energies to warmongering. The US should take note.
@@s.sestric9929 Japan got out off the War Business,....but NOT by choice. A "little conflict" called the Second World War assured that.
@@balancedactguy And our former enemies have a much higher standard of living now.
@@s.sestric9929 Which is good.....and lots of reforms along with checks and balances that were put in place FOR THEM helped that happen..
@@balancedactguy Gen. Douglas MacArthur headed up the occupation of Japan and imposed many of the reforms that has made them a peaceful, reasonably democratic republic. He did so by understanding and respecting Asian and Japanese culture, and knowing when to let them save face and when they needed to lose it. I recommend the excellent biography of him, "American Caesar" by William Manchester.
Very interesting
This video shows that prewar Japanese people could lead a relatively modern and wealthy life in urban districts in spite of militarism. However, only one out of every 400 Japanese people could afford to own private vehicles while every household of five people had their own automobiles in the United States. Considering the huge income gap between the two nations, Japan`s declaration of war against the United States was unrealistic and even suicidal from the beginnning. Because of the deadly mistake the Japanese war leaders made, elegant Japanese life, modern transportation and communication system which were described in this video were burnt to ashes. My grandmother was also victimized.
Japan would of one if it wasn't for the atomic bomb!
The rail system has improved a little
It`s quite amazing that Japanese newspaper companies before World War II depended upon primitive measures such as carrier pigeons for the delivery of pictures while they used modern airplanes with all kinds of equipments.
Pigeons were cheap... Probably cheaper than a messenger boy on a bike even.
Japanese newspaper is so outdated that it still uses vertical writing which Korea abolished in 1998 within 2-3 weeks.
The German Army was still largely reliant upon horses and mules during WW2 for supply and support functions.
@@aabb-zz9uw Cor fuc'n 'ell, imagine thinking preserving your culture is "backward".
@@aabb-zz9uw no one cares, that does NOT make it out of date, they just keep there culture unlike inferior kOrEa
Makes me want to visit.. Lol.. Fun and interesting to see how this is presented. Seriously though, I do want to visit Japan someday.
I to wish I'd visited but the bomb was afor my time one to few bombs for there god king,they needed a face I'm told Eisenhower was right after all.
大正末期の金光駅と金光教参拝特別列車とは大変貴重なフィルムです。
うわくんこ（若しくはこんくわう）としか読めません。最初何の事かと思いました。
Harley -Davidson began producing motor cycles in Japan in the 1920's.
Vi muchos vehiculos Ford V8 en el filme Ford Ya armaba vehiculos en Japon .
19:47: "as in other fields of mechanical invention, the Japanese have made little if any improvement in modern radio." Clearly, their lack of technical accumen was neither a hereditary nor congenital deficiency. But it kind of makes sense why American industry leaders of the 60s and 70s just could not accept that Japan was beginning to produce top-quality cars, audio, and other technical equipment.
I'm certain this was for occupying troops as it tries to inform with as little bias as possible. That is my opinion.
10:45 how that changed...
Trains slow. Will have to fix.
A friend, 6ft 7inch, while in Tokyo had to duck at the suburban subway stations to prevent his head hitting the information signs.
If it was not for use in fighting Japan, it’s quite a historic document into how japan was changing from an agrarian society into an indusial one.
戦前の日本を知る上で、大変貴重なフィルムですね。
ま、所々、陳腐な画面も出てきますが・・・＾＾；
7:06 の市電の行き先に ｢大阪駅前｣と明記されてる(＝大阪市電)なのに 福岡の続き扱いになってる。
7:23 のバスも｢梅田｣と読める。
7:26 は祐徳自動車って書いてある(しかも現存してる)ので佐賀県鹿島周辺だろうか？
でもって 7:47 で、また大阪(市)営‥‥ずいぶん雑な編集だなぁ。
Japan cannot compete with mass produced western automobiles - LOL, that didn't age well. Some of the "other transportation" shows was very reminiscent of my last trip to the Philippines.
"The Japanese have made little if any improvement in radio" - Sony would like a word.
If I didn't know better I would assume postwar Japan saw this video and took it as instructions on what to work on
こんくわう駅って何かと思ったら「こんこう」だな今風の表記だと
"As in America, the school children hitch a ride on passing trucks"... I... I'm sorry, what?
11:28 "Notice its right-hand drive, denoting its British manufacture." The fact that they drive on the left in Japan had nothing to do with it?
I think it has more to do with Japan always taking some inspiration from the british institutions, like how they build their navy based on the british doctrine and how after the war they changed their political system to a constitutional monarchy similar to the one in the UK
@@alvaricoke41 In Britain and Japan, knights or samurai would pass on the left because it was (usually) harder to strike an unexpected blow with a sword. I hear.
I also hear Austin sent loads of cars to Japan and they just went with it. And Britain had right-hand drive just because Rolls and Royce preferred to make their cars like that, and the aristocracy bought them.
Lo que Japon ha avanzado despues de la ww2 no tienen comparacion
Pray tell, how does one power a bus with charcoal?
" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas_generator " " scholar.google.com/scholar?q=stratified+downdraft+gasifier&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart "
I imagine the coal heats a steam boiler...Steam powered buses...
Maybe wood gas. Japan had many wood gas vehicles due to lack of resources.
The short version is when you heat wood, coal or charcoal it gives off hydrogen and methane as a by product. If you do this in an air tight container you can collect the gases and run them through a standard internal combustion engine. It's a bit more complicated in practice as you have to filter out other by products like creosote but it was used in quite a few countries during WW2 and was tinkered with during the energy crisis during the 1970's. There's a lot more maintenance involved in keeping the filters clean but the main downside is that once you get a batch of fuel cooking you can't just turn it off like you can with a liquid fueled engine. It works reasonably well in public transport were the vehicles run all day but not really suited for private vehicles.
@@steveevans4093 Right after the war, Soichiro Honda made his little motorbikes to run on turpentine.
But who knows? Maybe one day Japan will develop its own auto mobile.
Andrew Burke Poor Japanese are behind in radio too.....
I laughed when I heard that! I'm beginning to think we put fertilizer in the bombs we dropped. The first text and photo messages were sent via passenger pigeon.
Ha! When I was young, in the 1950's, the "Big Three" automakers in the United States were Ford, Chrysler and General Motors. Now the "Big Three" in the USA are Toyota, Honda, and Mitsubishi.
@@fredferd965 BS, Ford & GM still are major American automakers. Keep in mind that Toyota counts every product it sells with wheels as an auto, hence the reason they claim to be the biggest automaker in the world...
@@davidhollenshead4892 I'm thinking more in terms of reputation. I am personally disgusted with Ford. I bought one of their cars that constantly had engine failures. As far as I am concerned, ford is garbage. I am not happy with American makers going out of country to save money. They have abandoned American workers.
How far the mighty have fallen
24:58 wait! Birds actually delivered mail? No freaking way!!!
Due to the 202 coronavirus pandemic SL moka was suspended in January
So much American hubris
Look at all of these people waiting patiently to be blown up.
#ThanksTojo
No double-deck buses! No wonder they're crowded.
Now their cars & trains shit on ours.
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Tokoy, then, transfer to the "Down" 🚆 train to Osaka. Thanks for the 50 Yuen tip. Now I can go to the
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0:13 Warner Bros. fanfare.
chinese music and chinese gong. not japan. same as usual.
charcoal bus
* film created between 1942 and 1947 * Hard to believe that Japan has become capable of so much in two years since its surrender. Much of this must be later, or fictitious?
I believe some of it is actually earlier- Japanese stock footage and movie scenes.
nearest too late
anyone knows why the people wearing those black small masks ?
because flu and tuberculosis were common, it was one of the ways of protection.
Americans could take a few lessons in manners and civility from the Japanese.
strfltcmnd.
You need to crack open a book and read about the civility and manners of Unit 731
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
There was little “civil” about the Imperial Japanese society of 80-years-ago.
It depends on where you are. We left San Francisco because - to be nice - it lost it' civility (and civilization). Idaho folks are much nicer. We live there now.
Depends where you go. Europeans CONSTANTLY say how much friendlier and open Americans are compared to their own citizens.
Japan is still one of the most Racist Nations on Earth if you call that civility...
@@balancedactguy This. I watched a sort of documentary made some years ago by some German guys who traveled across the US and they were constantly astonished by what's just common courtesy.
原子爆弾を許しません。Nevers。
You've just been shown a well developed Japanese transportation and communications infrastructure.
Now go out and blow it all to hell.
typical trump idiot !
@@jerryeinstandig5691 Perhaps you didn't realize that this was a WWII film?
FR: No, not at all. This is an informational film for Army Civil Affairs and Provost Marshall (military police) soldiers who will be keeping the peace and coordinating the running of the country after surrender. None of them will be killing anyone or destroying infrastructure.
@@KB4QAA I actually lived in Tokyo as a high school student during the occupation in the late 1960's. We were an Air Force family. It was easily the most amazing and wonderful time of my life.
an eye for an eye and soon everyone's blind.
F**ck the train let's take the Toyota Camry.
Haha not as fast as US train, not as clean and modern. LMAO
Niklas Jakobsson And their consumer electronics are behind the American standard!
Once seen as advanced,now pathetically losing to Korea. No transfers, no screendoors except for maybe yamanote, expensive fares, underdeveloped infra such as curved single tracks, issues of multiple gauges in one country where the main is the outdated 1067mm cape gauge with the obsolete 762mm special narrow gauge still in operation, high speed rail technology now vastly behind Korea which has variable gauge for the siberian railroad and wireless power transfer.Japan has only recently started putting PHP sites online which was completed in Korea 2 decades ago. And still using cash.Japan's entire e-government was made by Korea as Japan lacked the required technologies. So behind.
KIM unjong is talking about how a professional copy cat & still no one have recieved a nobel prize yet dude !! Corian brain bravo !!
all excellent points!
You are the best joker in Asia lol.
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Given enough time, everybody manages to get even with everyone else. If there is one constant in all of human history, it is Revenge. Some people call that "karma".