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Duration: Several minutes | Format: Green-tinted silent footage Another entry in a series of Japan documentary shorts. The opening intertitle reads: "The cities and shops appear much like our own." The film then documents modern (early 20th-century) Japanese urban and maritime life. Key scenes include a bustling harbor with large steamships and rickshaws/carts on the wharf, and a close-up of a Japanese cargo ship, the "KYODO MARU No. 36", with both English and Japanese kanji visible on the hull. The film appears aimed at American audiences, presenting Japan as both familiar and exotic, at a time of growing trade relations between the U.S. and Japan.
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Duration: Several minutes | Format: Green-tinted silent footage
Another entry in a series of Japan documentary shorts. The opening intertitle reads: "The cities and shops appear much like our own." The film then documents modern (early 20th-century) Japanese urban and maritime life. Key scenes include a bustling harbor with large steamships and rickshaws/carts on the wharf, and a close-up of a Japanese cargo ship, the "KYODO MARU No. 36", with both English and Japanese kanji visible on the hull. The film appears aimed at American audiences, presenting Japan as both familiar and exotic, at a time of growing trade relations between the U.S. and Japan.
Another entry in a series of Japan documentary shorts. The opening intertitle reads: "The cities and shops appear much like our own." The film then documents modern (early 20th-century) Japanese urban and maritime life. Key scenes include a bustling harbor with large steamships and rickshaws/carts on the wharf, and a close-up of a Japanese cargo ship, the "KYODO MARU No. 36", with both English and Japanese kanji visible on the hull. The film appears aimed at American audiences, presenting Japan as both familiar and exotic, at a time of growing trade relations between the U.S. and Japan.
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