Examination of Japan's rle as aggressor in the Second World War.

Japanese culture and duality ("restraint at home, excess in battle" etc). Pre-war Japanese imperialism: Formosa, Port Arthur, Korea. (Reel 2) Japan after WW1: Pu Yi in Manchuria, war against China. Japan signs Anticomintern Pact. Entry into war: Pearl Harbor etc. Expansion and oppression. Spring 42 - Japanese halted in Burma, New Guinea. (Reel 3) Further Pacific conflict, British Fourteenth Army, Chinese airlifts. Japan in retreat. Fall of Mandalay. Borneo. Allies close in; atomic bomb. August 1945: surrender.

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Summary: one of the series "made in sixteen languages for the liberated peoples of Europe".