Children of Japan 1940 ERPI Classroom Films
 

An interesting view on Japanese culture just one year before the start of hostilities with the US by Encyclopaedia Britannica. What I was missing however was that the Japanese involvement in China at that time wasn't mentioned at all.

http://youtu.be/nvWqe4BIxQ4

However I guess 6 years later we would have gotten a very different view on that...:(

Good video. Thanks for posting it.

Interesting, makes me wonder what became of the children in particular.

Thanks, I enjoyed watching this video. The involvement in China wasn't mentioned because this wasn't a political film; this was just the everyday life of children in Japan. The horrors that would later rain down on them caused by the politicians and military were something those kids had no inkling of as they lived their lives. I'm with Jim: when watching films like this about the everyday life of average people, in particular the children, in those nations later hit by the consequences of others' actions, I, too, often wonder about the fates and later lives, if any, of those who once were just trying to live ordinary lives...




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